1943.1153: Mariana Russell (Mrs. John Russell) (1865-1908)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1943.1153

People

Auguste Rodin, French (Paris, France 1840 - 1917 Meudon, France)

Title

Mariana Russell (Mrs. John Russell) (1865-1908)

Other Titles

Alternate Title: Bust of Mrs. Russell

Classification

Sculpture

Work Type

sculpture

Date

1888, cast 1917-1918

Culture

French

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/229817

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Bronze with reddish brown patina

Technique

Cast, sand

Dimensions

46.4 x 24.8 x 28.2 cm (18 1/4 x 9 3/4 x 11 1/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: l. side of base: Rodin; interior in relief: A. Rodin
• inscription: right side of base, incised: ALEXIS RUDIER. FONDEUR. / PARIS
• inscription: left side of base: a Rosa Benedite / Rodin

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Auguste Rodin, Paris, cast 1888, bequest; to Rosa Bénédite, 1916, sold; to Grenville Liindall Winthrop, New York, NY, May 1928 [through Martin Birnbaum [1] ], bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943.

[1] Birnbaum worked with Rosa Bénédite's daughter, Eva Ungemach (nee Bénédite)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop

Accession Year

1943

Object Number

1943.1153

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• John L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, David R. Godine and Philadelphia Museum of Art (Philadelphia, PA, 1976), p. 595-6, under no 109
• Chikashi Kitazaki and Mina Oya, ed., Between Reality and Dreams: Nineteenth Century British and French Art from the Winthrop Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, exh. cat., National Museum of Western Art (Ueno, 2002), p. 27, repr. as fig. 13
• 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. 118, pp. 289-291, 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. 118, pp. 198-299, repr. in color

Exhibition History

• 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

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