National Gallery of Art :: The Collection :: Hand of Rodin with a Female Figure
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Provenance

Gift probably 1921 from the Musée Rodin to Mrs. John W. Simpson, New York;[1] gift 1942 to NGA.

[1] This work could only have been given to Mrs. Simpson after Rodin's death in November 1917, and presumably after the end of World War I in November 1918. The most likely time for Léonce Bénédite, the first director of the Musée Rodin, to have made such a gift was in 1921, when Mrs. Simpson donated funds to restore Rodin's home in Meudon. She had been there in the spring of 1921 and told Bénédite how disturbed she was by its dilapidated state (Musée Rodin curatorial files).

Exhibition History

1946
Rodin: Sculpture, Drawings, Prints, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1946, no. 14, as Study of Hand and Figure.
1965
Wax Sculptures by Degas, Sculptures and Drawings by Rodin, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1965-1966, no cat.
1981
Rodin Rediscovered, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1981-1982, no. 138.

Bibliography

1927
Grappe, Georges. Catalogue du Musée Rodin. Paris, 1927: 119.
1936
Cladel, Judith. Rodin: Sa vie glorieuse, sa vie inconnue. Paris, 1936: 402.
1944
Grappe, Georges. Catalogue du Musée Rodin. 5th ed. Paris, 1944: 139.
1965
Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 169.
1967
Descharnes, Robert, and Jean-François Chabrun. Auguste Rodin. Lausanne, 1967: 271.
1968
European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1968: 147, repro.
1969
Elsen, Albert E. The Partial Figure in Modern Sculpture. Exh. cat. The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1969: 28.
1976
Tancock, John L. The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin : the Collection of the Rodin Museum, Philadelphia. Boston, 1976: 637-638.
1983
Schmoll, J.A. Rodin--Studien: Persönlichkeit--Werke--Wirkung--Bibliographie. Munich, 1983: 83, 120.
1987
Ambrosini, Lynne, and Michelle Facos. Rodin: The Cantor Gift to the Brooklyn Museum. Brooklyn, 1987: 141.
1990
Pingeot, Anne. "Homme qui marche." In Le corps en morceau. Exh. cat. Musée d'Orsay, Paris, 1990: 174.
1992
Barbier, Nicolle. Rodin sculpteur: Oeuvres méconnues. Exh. cat. Musée Rodin, Paris, 1992: 84.
1994
Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: 203, repro.
1995
Didi-Huberman, Georges. "Figée à son insu dans un moule magique..." Les Cahiers du Musée Nationale. Paris, 1995: 105-107.
2000
Butler, Ruth, and Suzanne Glover Lindsay, with Alison Luchs, Douglas Lewis, Cynthia J. Mills, and Jeffrey Weidman. European Sculpture of the Nineteenth Century. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 2000: 407-408, color repro.
2009
Parshall, Peter, et al. The Darker Side of Light: Arts of Privacy, 1850-1900. Exh. cat., Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago. Washington, D.C., 2009: 138-142, 141 fig. 6.

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