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Auguste Rodin

Artist, French, 1840 - 1917

Auguste Rodin

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    graphite and watercolor on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Mrs. John W. Simpson

  • Dimensions

    overall: 32.5 x 25.3 cm (12 13/16 x 9 15/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1942.5.34


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Mrs. John W. Simpson [1869-1943]; gift 1942 to NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1946

  • Rodin: Sculpture, Drawings, Prints, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1946, no. 21, as Standing Figure.

1963

  • Auguste Rodin: an exhibition of sculptures and drawings, Charles E. Slatkin Galleries, New York, 1963, no. 57, repro.

1965

  • Sculpture and Drawings by Rodin, NGA, 1965-1966, 1967-1968, and 1968-1970.

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

2022

  • Le Normand-Romain, Antoinette, editor.Rodin in the United States: Confronting the Modern. Exh. cat. Clark Institute of Art, Williamstown; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, 2022-2023.

2023

  • De Margerie, Laure. French Sculpture: An American Passion. Ghent, 2023: 384-385, fig. 24.

Inscriptions

lower right: A Rodin; in later hand, center right verso: Mrs. Nelson Robinson / 23 E. 55; lower right verso: 38538

Wikidata ID

Q64536957


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