Woman and Child (originally Première Impression d'Amour)
model c. 1885, carved c. 1900-1901
Sculptor, French, 1840 - 1917
West Building Ground Floor, Gallery G3
Artwork overview
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Medium
marble
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 43.2 x 44.4 x 33.1 cm (17 x 17 1/2 x 13 1/16 in.)
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Accession
1942.5.19
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Acquired 1902 from the artist by Mr. and Mrs. John W. Simpson, New York; gift 1942 to NGA.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1946
Rodin: Sculpture, Drawings, Prints, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1946, no. 6, as Girl and Cupid (Premieres[sic] Impressions d'Amour).
1965
Wax Sculptures by Degas, Sculptures and Drawings by Rodin, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1965-1966, no cat.
1974
Nineteenth-Century Sculpture, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1974, unnumbered checklist.
1981
Rodin Rediscovered, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1981-1982, no. 150, as Fleeting Love.
Bibliography
1944
Grappe, Georges. Catalogue du Musée Rodin. 5th ed. Paris, 1944: 49.
1965
Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 169, as Woman and Child.
1968
National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 149, repro., as Woman and Child.
1976
Tancock, John. The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin. Philadelphia, 1976: 182-185.
1977
Walker Art Gallery. Foreign Catalogue. Vol. 1., Liverpool, 1977: 332.
de Caso, Jacques, and Patricia B. Sanders. Rodin's Sculpture: A Critical Study of the Spreckels Collection. San Francisco, 1977: 99-100.
1988
Beausire, Alain. Quand Rodin Exposait. Paris, 1988: 91, 125, 196, 217, 235, 237, 241, 266, 332.
1993
Rosenfeld, Daniel G. "Auguste Rodin's Carved Sculpture." Ph.D. diss., Stanford University, 1993: 436-443.
1994
Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: 209, 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: 351-354, color repro.
2019
Le Normand-Romain, Antoinette. "Auguste Rodin and the Question of the Original in Sculpture." Facture: conservation, science, art history 4 (2019): 102-127, fig. 5.
Inscriptions
on a smoothed irregular rectangle on bottom left side: A. Rodin
Wikidata ID
Q63809271