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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.1281
People
Auguste Rodin, French (Paris, France 1840 - 1917 Meudon, France)
Sitter: Pierre Henri Puvis de Chavannes, French (Lyon 1824 - 1898 Paris)
Title
Pierre-Cécile Puvis de Chavannes (1824-1898)
Classification
Sculpture
Work Type
sculpture
Date
1891
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/229944

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Wax, tinted green
Dimensions
17.8 x 17.3 x 11.4 cm (7 x 6 13/16 x 4 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: bottom, incised: donné à L. Bénédite / par Rodin / le 10 novembre 1916

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Auguste Rodin; to Léonce Bénédite, 1916, bequest; to Rosa Bénédite, his wife, 1925, offered [through Hôtel Drouot, Paris, May 31, 1928], withdrawn, sold [via Martin BIrnbaum]; to Grenville Lindall Winthrop, New York, June 4, 1928, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943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
1943.1281
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Dorothy W. Gillerman, ed., Grenville L. Winthrop: Retrospective for a Collector, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, 1969), no. 131, p. 204; repr. p. 205
  • John L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, David R. Godine and Philadelphia Museum of Art (Philadelphia, PA, 1976), p. 525, under no. 90
  • 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), repr. in b/w p. 41, as fig. 48
  • 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), p. 46, fig. 46

Exhibition History

  • Grenville L. Winthrop: Retrospective for a Collector, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 01/23/1969 - 03/31/1969
  • Ancient to Modern, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/31/2012 - 06/01/2013

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