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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.1140
People
Auguste Rodin, French (Paris, France 1840 - 1917 Meudon, France)
Title
Study for "Romeo and Juliet"
Classification
Sculpture
Work Type
sculpture
Date
1902
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/230227

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Bronze
Dimensions
51.8 x 29.9 x 24.1 cm (20 3/8 x 11 3/4 x 9 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: on base, proper left: A. Rodin

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Auguste Rodin, 1902, sold; to Jacques Emile Blanche, 1904, sold (through Martin Birnbaum); to Grenville L. Winthrop, New York, New York, 1931, 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
1943.1140
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Ionel Jianou and Cecile Goldscheider, Rodin, Editions d'Art, Arted, Paris (Paris, France, 1967), p. 111
  • 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. 126, pp. 300-301, 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. 126, pp. 308-309, repr. in color
  • Laure de Margerie, French Sculpture: An American Passion, Snoeck and Institut National d'Historie de l'arte (Ghent, 2023), pp. 426, 428, 432, repr. p. 428 as fig. 28

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

Verification Level

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