Woman and Child (originally Première Impression d'Amour), model c. 1885, carved c. 1900-1901

Inscription

on a smoothed irregular rectangle on bottom left side: A. Rodin

Provenance

Acquired 1902 from the artist by Mr. and Mrs. John W. Simpson, New York; gift 1942 to NGA.

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

de Caso, Jacques, and Patricia B. Sanders. Rodin's Sculpture: A Critical Study of the Spreckels Collection. San Francisco, 1977: 99-100.

1977

Walker Art Gallery. Foreign Catalogue. Vol. 1., Liverpool, 1977: 332.

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.

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