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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.1137
People
Auguste Rodin, French (Paris, France 1840 - 1917 Meudon, France)
Title
Eternal Spring
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Le Printemps / L'Eternel Printemps
Alternate Title: Eternal Springtime / Spring
Classification
Sculpture
Work Type
sculpture
Date
1884, cast 1888
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/229825

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Bronze with brown patina
Technique
Cast
Dimensions
63.5 x 68 x 39.1 cm (25 x 26 3/4 x 15 3/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.l.: Rodin

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Auguste Rodin, to Alfred Philippe Roll, by exchange? [Scott & Fowles, New York, NY], sold; to Grenville L. Winthrop, New York, NY, 1922, 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
1943.1137
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Chinese Sculpture, Bronzes, Jades, Paintings and Drawings, Egyptian and Persian sculpture, Pre-Columbian art; selected from the collection of Grenville Lindall Winthrop, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1943), p. 11
  • Auguste Rodin: An Exhibition of Sculptures and Drawings, exh. cat., Charles E. Slatkin Galleries (New York, NY, 1963), p. 90, no. 101
  • Ionel Jianou and Cecile Goldscheider, Rodin, Editions d'Art, Arted, Paris (Paris, France, 1967), p. 98; repr. plates 56-57
  • John L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, David R. Godine and Philadelphia Museum of Art (Philadelphia, PA, 1976), p. 246, repr. no. 32-4
  • Alain Beausire, ed., Correspondance de Rodin I: 1860-1899, Editions du Musée Rodin (Paris, France, 1985), pp. 82, 87-88, letters no. 90, 99, 100,101
  • Lynne Ambrosini and Michelle Facos, Rodin: the Cantor Gift to the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn Museum (New York, NY, 1987), repr. in b/w p. 171
  • Maria Rosa Figueiredo, Catalogo de Escultura Europeia vol. I, A Escultura Francesa, Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian (Lisbon, Portugal, 1992), p. 212, no. 54
  • 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. 116, pp. 285-286, 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. 116, pp. 294-295, repr. in color

Exhibition History

  • Chinese sculpture, bronzes, jades, paintings and drawings, Egyptian and Persian sculpture, Pre-Columbian art : selected from the collection of Grenville Lindall Winthrop, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 10/01/1943 - 02/28/1944
  • 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

Verification Level

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