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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.1141
People
Auguste Rodin, French (Paris, France 1840 - 1917 Meudon, France)
Title
Antonin Proust (1832-1905)
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Portrait Head of Antonin Proust
Classification
Sculpture
Work Type
sculpture
Date
August 1884
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/229673

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Bronze with brown patina
Technique
Lost-wax process
Dimensions
51.8 x 24.8 x 24.7 cm (20 3/8 x 9 3/4 x 9 3/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: back of neck, l.l.: Rodin
  • inscription: back of neck, l.r., stamp: Bingen fondeur

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Antonin Proust, purchased from the artist's estate, 1905. Rikoff, France, sold; to Haro, Paris, France [through Galerie Georges Petit, 1907, lot 29]. Baron Joseph Vitta, Paris, France, 1907, sold; to Grenville L. Winthrop, New York, NY, 1935 [via Martin Birnbaum], bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.1141
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • André Michel, "Le Salon de 1885", Gazette des Beaux-Arts (1885), no. 2, pp. 116-128, p. 124
  • Octave Mirbeau, "Mm. Rodin, Dalou, Gaudez, Frémiet, Aubé", La France (June 3, 1885)
  • Alfred Lanson, "Salon de 1885", L'Artiste (1885), vol. 1, pp. 321, 334
  • Félicien Champsaur, Le Cerveau de Paris: Esquisses de la vie littéraire et artistique, E. Dentu (Paris, France, 1886), pp. 104-105
  • Truman Howe Bartlett, "Auguste Rodin", The American Architect and Building News (April 27, 1889), vol. XXV, no. 696
  • Charles Saunier, "Auguste Rodin", Les Arts Français (February 1918), no. 14, pp. 17-23
  • Gustave Geffroy, "L'Oeuvre de Rodin à l'exposition de 1900", Les Arts Français (February 1918), no. 14, pp. 24-29
  • Vidor Frisch and Joseph T. Shipley, Auguste Rodin: A Biography, Frederick A. Stokes Company (New York, NY, 1939), pp. 265-266, 417
  • Ionel Jianou and Cecile Goldscheider, Rodin, Editions d'Art, Arted, Paris (Paris, France, 1967), p. 98
  • Victoria Thorson, "Reassessing Rodin's Graphics", Art News (September 1975), p. 40, repr. p. 42
  • Hélène Pinet, Les Photographes de Rodin, exh. cat., Musée Rodin (Paris, France, 1986), no. 9
  • Alain Beausire, ed., Correspondance de Rodin III 1908-1912, Editions du Musée Rodin (Paris, France, 1987), pp. 126-127
  • Alain Beausire, Quand Rodin Exposait, Editions du Musée Rodin (Paris, France, 1988), pp. 92, 100, 188, 253
  • Cecile Goldscheider, Auguste Rodin : catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre sculpté, Wildenstein Institute (Paris, France, 1989), no. 133b, pp. 178-179
  • Claude Monet-Auguste Rodin : centenaire de l'exposition de 1889, exh. cat., Musée Rodin (Paris, France, 1989), p. 44, 174
  • Ruth Butler, Rodin: The Shape of Genius, Yale University Press (New Haven, CT and London, England, 1993), pp. 214-217
  • Anna Tahinci, "Le Portrait Masculin chez Rodin" (1995), Unpublished, p. 211
  • Stephan Wolohojian, ed., A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University, exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press (U.S.) (New York, 2003), no. 117, pp. 287-289, repr. in color
  • Stephan Wolohojian, Ingres, Burne-Jones, Whistler, Renoir... La Collection Grenville L. Winthrop, exh. cat., Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon and Réunion des Musées Nationaux (Paris, France, 2003), no. 117, pp. 296-297, repr. in color

Exhibition History

  • Salon Exhibition, Salon, Paris, Paris, 05/01/1885 - 06/30/1885
  • Exposition Universelle internationale, art contemporain 1878-1889, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Paris, Paris, 05/06/1889 - 11/06/1889
  • Exposition Rodin, Pavilion Rodin, Paris, 06/01/1900 - 11/30/1900
  • Exposition Internationale des Beaux-arts, Palais National des Beaux-arts, Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, 05/01/1904 - 10/23/1904
  • A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 10/23/2003 - 01/25/2004
  • For Students of Art and Lovers of Beauty: Highlights from the Collection of Grenville L. Winthrop, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/16/2004
  • World’s Fairs, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/16/2014 - 05/10/2015

Verification Level

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