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Auguste Rodin

Victoria Sackville-West, Lady Sackville, 1913-1914

West Building, Ground Floor - Gallery 2

Medium

plaster

Dimensions

overall: 45.7 x 47.6 x 37.5 cm (18 x 18 3/4 x 14 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of the B. Gerald Cantor Art Foundation

Accession Number

1988.54.1

Artists / Makers

Auguste Rodin (sculptor) French, 1840 - 1917

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Inscription

on lower right on back, a red wax seal with initials: HG

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

Drouot, Hôtel
Fondscolombe, A. de
Hanotaux, Gabriel
Hôtel des Ventes
Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Foundation
Sotheby's

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.

1987: Grunfeld, Frederic V. Rodin: A Biography. New York, 1987: 613-618.

1987: 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.