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Auguste Rodin

Head of Saint John the Baptist, 1887

West Building, Ground Floor — Gallery G1-C

Medium

plaster

Dimensions

overall (greatest extension): 6.7 cm (2 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mrs. John W. Simpson

Accession Number

1942.5.25

Artists / Makers

Auguste Rodin (sculptor) French, 1840 - 1917

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Inscription

on back: en Souvenir de Paris / l'an 1907 / a monsieur J.W. / Simpson de / New York en grande Sym / pathie A Rodin

Provenance

Gift 1907 from the artist to Mr. and Mrs. John W. Simpson, New York; gift 1942 to NGA.

Associated Names

Simpson, John W., Mrs.

Exhibition History

1946: Rodin: Sculpture, Drawings, Prints, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1946, no. 15, as Study of Head.

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. 80.

Bibliography

1927: Grappe, Georges. Catalogue du Musée Rodin. Paris, 1927: 50.

1936: Cladel, Judith. Rodin: Sa vie glorieuse, sa vie inconnue. Paris, 1936: 146.

1944: Grappe, Georges. Catalogue du Musée Rodin. 5th ed. Paris, 1944: 64.

1965: Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 169, as Study for "St. John the Baptist," Gates of Hell.

1967: Descharnes, Robert, and Jean-François Chabrun. Auguste Rodin. Lausanne, 1967: 85, 241.

1968: National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 149, repro., as Study for "St. John the Baptist," Gates of Hell.

1976: Tancock, John. The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin. Philadelphia, 1976: 205-209.

1977: de Caso, Jacques, and Patricia B. Sanders. Rodin's Sculpture: A Critical Study of the Spreckels Collection. San Francisco, 1977: 85-87.

1981: Elsen, Albert E. "When the Sculptures Were White: Rodin's Work in Plaster." In Rodin Rediscovered. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1981: 130.

1989: Vilain, Jacques. Claude Monet-Auguste Rodin: Centennaire de l'exposition de 1889. Exh. cat. Musée Rodin, Paris, 1989: 189.

1993: Rosenfeld, Daniel G. "Auguste Rodin's Carved Sculpture." Ph.D. diss., Stanford University, 1993: 413-417.

1994: Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: 203, 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: 357-360, color repro.

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