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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.1033
People
Auguste Rodin, French (Paris, France 1840 - 1917 Meudon, France)
Title
Victor Hugo (1802-1885)
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Portrait bust of Victor Hugo
Classification
Sculpture
Work Type
sculpture
Date
1883
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/229861

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Marble
Dimensions
54.6 x 30.5 x 24.1 cm (21 1/2 x 12 x 9 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: proper right shoulder: A. Rodin

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Auguste Rodin, to; Henri de Rochefort-Luçay, November 1900, to; Charles Cottet, to; M. Allard, Paris, circa 1921. [Scott & Fowles, New York, NY], sold; to Grenville L. Winthrop, New York, March 3, 1923, 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
1943.1033
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Arsène Alexandre, Exposition de 1900: L'Oeuvre de Rodin, exh. cat., Société d'Édition Artistique (Paris, 1900), p. 19, cat. no. 86
  • [Unidentified article], Les Arts (Jul 1905), repr. p. 1; text p. 111
  • Theodore Meyer Greene, Arts and the Art of Criticism, Princeton University Press (Princeton, NJ, 1940), pp. 297-298
  • [Reproduction only], "French Sculpture", Bulletin of the Fogg Art Museum, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, November 1943)., repr. in b/w, p. 61
  • [Untitled article], Harvard Alumni Bulletin, Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, January 8, 1944), vol. XLVI, repr.
  • Elliott M. Grant, The Career of Victor Hugo, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1945)
  • Clifford Stetson Parker and Paul J. Grigaut, Initiation à la Culture Française, Harper & Row (New York, NY, 1963), repr. p. 169
  • John L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, David R. Godine and Philadelphia Museum of Art (Philadelphia, PA, 1976), no. 87, p. 511; repr. in b/w p. 509, 87-5
  • Jacques de Caso and Patricia B. Sanders, Rodin's Sculpture: A Critical Study of the Spreckels Collection, Charles E. Tuttle Co. (Rutland, VT and Tokyo, Japan, 1977), p. 272; p. 275, n. 9
  • Albert Edward Elsen, In Rodin's Studio, Phaidon Press/Cornell University Press (Oxford, England / Ithaca, NY, 1980), cf.: figs. 85-88; p. 177
  • Alain Beausire, Quand Rodin Exposait, Editions du Musée Rodin (Paris, France, 1988), p. 188, no. 86
  • Maria Rosa Figueiredo, Catalogo de Escultura Europeia vol. I, A Escultura Francesa, Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian (Lisbon, Portugal, 1992), p. 242, under no. 59
  • Daniel Rosenfeld, "Auguste Rodin's Carved Sculpture (Volumes I-III)" (1993), p. 400, cat. no. 37a
  • Rodin: La chair, le marbre, exh. cat., Musée Rodin (Paris, 2012), p. 214

Exhibition History

  • Exposition Rodin, Pavilion Rodin, Paris, 06/01/1900 - 11/30/1900
  • 32Q: 2200 19th Century, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/14/2022 - 02/27/2023

Verification Level

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