Victoria Sackville-West, Lady Sackville
1913-1914
Sculptor, French, 1840 - 1917

West Building Ground Floor, Gallery G2
Artwork overview
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Medium
plaster
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 45.7 x 47.6 x 37.5 cm (18 x 18 3/4 x 14 3/4 in.)
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Accession
1988.54.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Made from a cast of a terracotta (no longer extant) owned by Gabriel Hanotaux [1853-1944]; by descent to his nephew, A. de Fondscolombe. (sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 26 May 1977, no. 50 bis).[1] (sale, Sotheby's, London, 29 March 1984, no. 523).[2] (sale, Hôtel des Ventes, Enghien-les-Bains, 25 June 1987, no. 208); B. Gerald Cantor Art Foundation, New York; gift 1988 to NGA.
[1] Information provided by Drouot sales catalogue in the files of the Musée Rodin, Paris. A curator from the museum has written in script: "Provenant de la collection Fondscolombe, neveu de G. Hanotaux. Cachet en métal HG derrière l'épaule droite. l'écharpe ne déborde pas du platre."
[2] Impressionist and modern paintings and sculpture, Part II, Sotheby's, London, 29 March 1984, no. 523. The year on the title page of the sale catalogue is incorrectly printed as 1983.
Associated Names
Bibliography
1927
Grappe, Georges. Catalogue du Musée Rodin. Paris, 1927: 114.
1944
Grappe, Georges. Catalogue du Musée Rodin. 5th ed. Paris, 1944: 136-138.
1970
Nicolson, Benedict. "Rodin and Lady Sackville." The Burlington Magazine 112 (January 1970): 37-43.
1981
Rosenfeld, Daniel. "Rodin's Carved Sculpture." In Rodin Rediscovered. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1981: 99-100.
1985
Hare, Marion. "The Portraiture of Auguste Rodin." Ph.D. dissertation, Stanford University, 1985: 617-624.
1987
Barbier, Nicolle. Marbres de Rodin: collection du musée. Paris, 1987: 76-77.
Grunfeld, Frederic V. Rodin: A Biography. New York, 1987: 613-618.
Hare, Marion. "Rodin and His English Sitters." The Burlington Magazine 129 (June 1987): 372-381.
1993
Butler, Ruth. Rodin. The Shape of Genius. New Haven and London, 1993: 483-487.
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: 402-406, color repro.
Inscriptions
on lower right on back, a red wax seal with initials: HG
Wikidata ID
Q63860727