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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1998.306
People
After Auguste Rodin, French (Paris, France 1840 - 1917 Meudon, France)
Title
La Douleur
Classification
Sculpture
Work Type
sculpture
Date
c. 1883
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/232569

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Bronze
Dimensions
7 x 6.5 x 7.8 cm (2 3/4 x 2 9/16 x 3 1/16 in.)
with base: 13.7 cm (5 3/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: proper left side of neck: A. Rodin
  • foundry mark: back of head, cast in: Alexis Rudier / Fondeur, Paris

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Lois Orswell, Pomfret Center, CT, bequest; to the Harvard University Art Museums, 1998. Mrs. Orswell did not recall where she had acquired this piece.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, The Lois Orswell Collection
Accession Year
1998
Object Number
1998.306
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Marjorie B. Cohn and Sarah Kianovsky, Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Modern Art, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2002), cat. no. 193, p. 340

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