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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.1147
People
Auguste Rodin, French (Paris, France 1840 - 1917 Meudon, France)
Title
John the Baptist
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Saint John the Baptist
Classification
Sculpture
Work Type
sculpture
Date
1878-1881
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/229674

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Bronze with black patina
Dimensions
80 x 54.6 x 44.5 cm (31 1/2 x 21 1/2 x 17 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: on base: A. Rodin
  • inscription: right rear of base, incised: 1ère Epreuve sur platre [see photo of detail: FB 98-R2-32 in curatorial file]
  • label: interior of base, paper: No. 5914
  • label: now in curatorial file, paper, typewritten: BRONZE BY RODIN / "ST. JEAN BAPTISTE" / FORMERLY IN THE COLLECTION OF MONSIEUR M. DANDRE / EXHIBITED: RODIN EXHIBITION, PARIS 1917.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
? Gustave Danthon, Paris (c. 1917 when it was exhibited in the Rodin exhibition at the Galerie Haussmann), sold; possibly to M. Dandré, Paris (c. 1920-25). [Scott & Fowles, New York, NY (1927)] sold; to Grenville L. Winthrop, bequested; 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
1943.1147
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Georges Grappe, Rodin, Oxford University Press (NY) and Oxford University Press (UK) (New York, NY, 1939), p. 143, repr. no. 8-10
  • Ionel Jianou and Cecile Goldscheider, Rodin, Editions d'Art, Arted, Paris (Paris, France, 1967), p. 87
  • John L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, David R. Godine and Philadelphia Museum of Art (Philadelphia, PA, 1976), p. 368
  • Kristin A. Mortimer and William G. Klingelhofer, Harvard University Art Museums: A Guide to the Collections, Harvard University Art Museums and Abbeville Press (Cambridge and New York, 1986), no. 148, p. 131, repr.
  • Nathan Goldstein, Figure Drawing: The Structure, Anatomy, and Expressive Design of Human Form, Pearson Prentice Hall (Upper Saddle River, N.J., 2004), repr. as fig. 4.59 on p. 156 [front], fig. 4.64 on p. 158 [back], in b/w
  • Laure de Margerie, French Sculpture: An American Passion, Snoeck and Institut National d'Historie de l'arte (Ghent, 2023), p. 432

Exhibition History

  • Rodin Exhibition, Galerie Haussmann, Paris, Paris, 11/06/1917

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