Eve, model c. 1881, carved 1890/1891

West Building, Ground Floor - Gallery 3

Medium

marble

Dimensions

overall: 76.2 × 24.77 × 30.48 cm (30 × 9 3/4 × 12 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (William A. Clark Collection)

Accession Number

2014.136.247

Artists / Makers

Auguste Rodin (sculptor) French, 1840 - 1917

Image Use

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Inscription

on the base near the left foot: A. Rodin

Provenance

Commissioned 1890 by Henri Vever [1854-1942], Paris; delivered November 1891; (Vever sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 1-2 February 1897, no. 186); William A. Clark [1839-1925], New York; bequest 1926 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2014 by the National Gallery of Art.

Associated Names

Clark, William Andrews
Corcoran Gallery of Art
Galerie Georges Petit
Vever, Henri

Exhibition History

1978: The William A. Clark Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 26 April - 16 July 1978, unnumbered catalogue, fig. 106.

2000: Rodin: Sculpture from the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Collection, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, 2000.

2007: Treasures of European Decorative Art and Sculpture, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 25 August 2007 - 29 March 2009, no catalogue.

2010: A Love of Europe: Highlights from the William A. Clark Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 30 January - 11 April 2010, no catalogue.

Bibliography

2007: Le Normand-Romain, Antoinette. Rodin et le Bronze: Catalogue des Oeuvres Conservées au Musée Rodin. Paris, 2007: 342, 346, 348 n. 33.

2007: Le Normand-Romain, Antoinette. The Bronzes of Rodin: Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin. Translated by Pamela Hargreaves. Paris, 2007: 342, 346. 348 n. 33.