Harvard Art Museums > 1943.1152: The Man with the Broken Nose Sculpture Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"The Man with the Broken Nose (Auguste Rodin) , 1943.1152,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Apr 18, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/230006. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 1943.1152 People Auguste Rodin, French (Paris, France 1840 - 1917 Meudon, France) Title The Man with the Broken Nose Other Titles Alternate Title: Mask of the Man with the Broken Nose Classification Sculpture Work Type sculpture Date 1863-1864 Culture French Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/230006 Physical Descriptions Medium Bronze, with brown patina Technique Cast, sand Dimensions 43 x 26.7 x 19 cm (16 15/16 x 10 1/2 x 7 1/2 in.) Inscriptions and Marks label: removed from base, now in curatorial file, black ink, paper, typewritten: AUG. RODIN / "L'Homme au nez Casse" / This cast was given to Gustave Natorp / by Rodin, being the first of six only / which were cast for the artist. / Monsieur Natorp was the pupil / and friend of Rodin. Provenance Recorded Ownership History Gustave Natorp, Purchased [in London?], 1882. [Scott & Fowles, New York, NY], sold; to Grenville L. Winthrop, New York, NY, 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 1943.1152 Division European and American Art Contact am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu Permissions THIS WORK MAY NOT BE LENT BY THE TERMS OF ITS ACQUISITION TO THE HARVARD ART MUSEUMS. The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Publication History Anne Leslie, Rodin, Immortal Peasant, Prentice-Hall (New York, NY, 1937), pp. 41, 84 Ionel Jianou and Cecile Goldscheider, Rodin, Editions d'Art, Arted, Paris (Paris, France, 1967), p. 84, pl. 5 Jeanne L. Wasserman, ed., Metamorphoses in Nineteenth-Century Sculpture, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1975), repr. p. 158, fig. 8, text p. 157, checklist p. 178 John L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, David R. Godine and Philadelphia Museum of Art (Philadelphia, PA, 1976), listed, p. 476 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. 250-257, no. 50 Monique Laurent, "Observations on Rodin and His Founders", Rodin Rediscovered, ed. Albert Edward Elsen, National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C., 1982), p. 286 Alain Beausire, Quand Rodin Exposait, Editions du Musée Rodin (Paris, France, 1988), p. 77 Anna Tahinci, "Private Patronage: Rodin and his Early British Collectors", Rodin, the Zola of Sculpture, ed. Claudine Mitchell, Ashgate Publishing (Burlington, VT, 2004), pp. 95-117, p. 108, repr. as fig. 5.1 Exhibition History Annual Exhibition, 1876, Salon, Paris, Paris, 01/01/1876 - 12/31/1876 Unidentified Exhibition, Grosvenor Gallery, 1881, Grosvenor Gallery, London, 01/01/1881 - 12/31/1881 Metamorphoses in 19th-Century Sculpture, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 11/19/1975 - 01/07/1976 Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of European and American Art at am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
