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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.1142
People
Auguste Rodin, French (Paris, France 1840 - 1917 Meudon, France)
Alphonse Legros, French (1837 - 1911)
Title
Alphonse Legros (1837-1911)
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Bust of Alphonse Legros
Classification
Sculpture
Work Type
sculpture
Date
1881-1882
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/230228

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Bronze, with black patina
Dimensions
43.8 x 21 x 23.4 cm (17 1/4 x 8 1/4 x 9 3/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: left side of neck and in interior: A. Rodin
  • inscription: back of neck, l.r., stamped: Alexis Rudier / Fondeur Paris

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
The artist, by exchange; to Achille Segard, 1910. [1] Private Collector, Paris, France, sold; [via Martin Birnbaum] to Grenville L. Winthrop, New York, NY, 1929, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943.

Notes
[1] Exchanged for a cast of Ugolino by Carpeaux. See Correspondance de Rodin III, p. 113, and Rodin Rediscovered, Judrin, p. 159-191

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.1142
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Georges Grappe, Rodin, Oxford University Press (NY) and Oxford University Press (UK) (New York, NY, 1939), p. 144, repr. no. 26
  • Ionel Jianou and Cecile Goldscheider, Rodin, Editions d'Art, Arted, Paris (Paris, France, 1967), p. 94
  • John L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, David R. Godine and Philadelphia Museum of Art (Philadelphia, PA, 1976), p. 494
  • Albert Edward Elsen, Rodin Rediscovered, exh. cat., National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C, 1981), p. 191
  • Alain Beausire, ed., Correspondance de Rodin III 1908-1912, Editions du Musée Rodin (Paris, France, 1987), p. 113
  • Maria Rosa Figueiredo, Catalogo de Escultura Europeia vol. I, A Escultura Francesa, Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian (Lisbon, Portugal, 1992), p. 234, no. 58
  • Anna Tahinci, "Le Portrait Masculin chez Rodin" (1995), Unpublished, p. 187

Verification Level

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