Thomas Fortune Ryan

1909-1910

Auguste Rodin

Sculptor, French, 1840 - 1917

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West Building Ground Floor, Gallery G3

Artwork overview

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Commissioned by Thomas Fortune Ryan [1851-1928], New York; by inheritance to his son, John Barry Ryan [1874-1942], New York; by inheritance to his son, John Barry Ryan, Jr. [d. 1966], London; by inheritance to his wife, Margaret Kahn Ryan [1901-1995], New York and London; gift 1974 to NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1910

  • M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York, November 1910.

  • Salon de 1910, XXe Exposition, Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Grand Palais, Paris, April-June 1910, no. 1929, as Mr. R....

Bibliography

1927

  • Grappe, Georges. Catalogue du Musée Rodin. Paris, 1927: 109-110.

1944

  • Grappe, Georges. Catalogue du Musée Rodin. 5th ed. Paris, 1944: 129.

1959

  • Alley, Ronald. Tate Gallery Catalogues. The Foreign Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture. London, 1959: 221-222.

1975

  • Hawkins, Jennifer. Rodin Sculptures. London, 1975: 31.

1981

  • Vincent, Clare. "Rodin at the Metropolitan Museum of Art: A History of the Collection." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin (Spring 1981): 19-21, 32-33.

1985

  • Hare, Marion. "The Portraiture of Auguste Rodin." Ph.D. dissertation, Stanford University, 1985: 585-590.

1987

  • Grunfeld, Frederic V. Rodin: A Biography. New York, 1987: 530-531.

1988

  • Beausire, Alain. Quand Rodin Exposait. Paris, 1988: 314, 316, 355, 359.

1994

  • Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: 206, repro.

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: 399-402, color repro.

Inscriptions

on lower section of left arm in front: A. Rodin; on right shoulder in back: ALEXIS RUDIER / FONDEUR Paris; in relief on interior of left arm: A. Rodin

Markings

FM: Alexis Rudier

Wikidata ID

Q63854555

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