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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1991.90
People
Auguste Rodin, French (Paris, France 1840 - 1917 Meudon, France)
Title
Prodigal Son
Classification
Sculpture
Work Type
sculpture
Date
19th century
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/226692

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Bronze
Dimensions
140 x 104.1 x 65.2 cm (55 1/8 x 41 x 25 11/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: on base: A. Rodin
  • manufacturer's mark: base, incised, French: Georges Rudier Fondeur, Paris

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Musée Rodin, Paris, France [1], sold; to [Charles E. Slatkin Galleries, 1962], sold; to David Aronson, Sudbury, MA, 1965, sold; to Lewis Weinstein, Boston, MA, 1973, gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1991.

[1] The Musée Rodin had 12 casts of this work made. This sculpture is no. 6.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Lewis H. Weinstein, AB '27, JD '30 and Selma Yeslawsky Weinstein, '32
Accession Year
1991
Object Number
1991.90
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Rodin: Sculptures and Drawings, exh. cat., Charles E. Slatkin Galleries (New York, NY, 1963), repr., no. 93
  • Ionel Jianou and Cecile Goldscheider, Rodin, Editions d'Art, Arted, Paris (Paris, France, 1967), p. 94; repr., no. 34
  • John L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, David R. Godine and Philadelphia Museum of Art (Philadelphia, PA, 1976), plate 5, p. 45

Exhibition History

  • Auguste Rodin: An Exhibition of Sculptures and Drawings, Charles E. Slatkin Galleries, New York, 05/06/1963 - 06/26/1963; Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Montreal, 08/17/1963 - 09/17/1963; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 09/26/1963 - 10/20/1963; Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, 11/01/1963 - 12/01/1963; William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art (now Nelson-Atkins), Kansas City, 12/15/1963 - 01/15/1964; Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, 01/27/1964 - 03/01/1964; Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, 03/08/1964 - 04/08/1964; North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, 04/20/1964 - 05/20/1964; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, 06/01/1964 - 07/01/1964; Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, 07/15/1964 - 08/23/1964; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, 09/11/1964 - 10/06/1964; Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 10/21/1964 - 11/20/1964; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 12/04/1964 - 01/10/1965
  • Modern Art at Harvard, Bunkamura Museum of Art, Tokyo, 07/31/1999 - 09/26/1999; Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Kagawa, 10/09/1999 - 11/14/1999; Matsuzakaya Art Museum, Nagoya, 12/02/1999 - 12/27/1999; Oita City Museum, Oita, 01/06/2000 - 02/06/2000; Museum of Modern Art, Ibaraki, Ibaraki, 02/11/2000 - 03/26/2000

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