Nude Woman Carrying Vase on Head
1909
Artist, French, 1840 - 1917
Artwork overview
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Medium
graphite and watercolor
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 50.3 x 31.2 cm (19 13/16 x 12 5/16 in.)
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Accession
1942.5.32
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Mrs. John W. Simpson [1869-1943]; gift 1942 to NGA.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1946
Rodin: Sculpture, Drawings, Prints, NGA, 1946, no. 25, as Figure with a Vase.
1963
Auguste Rodin: an exhibition of sculptures and drawings, Charles E. Slatkin Galleries, New York, 1963, no. 17.
1965
Sculpture and Drawings by Rodin, NGA, 1965-1966 & 1969.
1971
Rodin Drawings: True and False, NGA & Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1971-1972.
2016
Fleeting Moments -- Drawings by Auguste Rodin, Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, 2016.
2022
Rodin the United States: Confronting the Modern, Clark Art Institute, Williamstown; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, 2022-2023 (shown only in Williamstown).
Bibliography
1971
Elsen/Varnedoe 1971, fig.80 (as c.1900-05).
2023
De Margerie, Laure. French Sculpture: An American Passion. Ghent, 2023: 380-381, fig. 21.
Inscriptions
lower right in graphite: a Madame K. Simpson amie / de mon art des la premiere heure / Aug. Rodin 1909; in unknown hand, upper left: 1842
Wikidata ID
Q64536955