West Building Ground Floor, Gallery G1-C
Artwork overview
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Medium
terracotta
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 35 x 17.2 x 18.7 cm (13 3/4 x 6 3/4 x 7 3/8 in.)
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Accession Number
1942.5.5
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Acquired possibly 1905 from the artist by Mr. and Mrs. John W. Simpson, New York;[1] gift 1942 to NGA.
[1] Like the other terracottas by Rodin given by Mrs. Simpson to the National Gallery of Art, this figure may be among those she referred to in her letter of 13 October 1905 (NGA 1942.5.4,6,7). (The letter is in the Musée Rodin Archives, Paris.)
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1965
Wax Sculptures by Degas, Sculptures and Drawings by Rodin, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1965-1966, no cat.
1981
Rodin Rediscovered, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1981-1982, no. 77.
Bibliography
1965
Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 167.
1968
National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 147, repro.
1994
Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: 207, 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: 366-368, color repro.
2017
Le Normand-Romain, Antoinette. "The Tale of a Sculpture: Rodin's Statuette of a Woman." Center, Research Reports and Record of Activities 37 (2017): 128-131, repro.
Inscriptions
on side of base below right hip: Rodin
Wikidata ID
Q63809241