1943.914: Vase Clodion (Lovers)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1943.914

People

Auguste Rodin, French (Paris, France 1840 - 1917 Meudon, France)

Title

Vase Clodion (Lovers)

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

c. 1880

Culture

French

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/297447

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Black ink and gouache with traces of graphite on tan wove paper

Dimensions

18.9 x 14.5 cm (7 7/16 x 5 11/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: upper left, gray ink, in artist's hand: pour Vase Clodion

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

John Singer Sargent; his sale, Christie's London, July 24-25, 1925, part of no. 269 (£58 16s.); purchased at that sale by Scott and Fowles, New York; acquired from them by Grenville L. Winthrop, January 1926 ($550); his bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1943.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop

Accession Year

1943

Object Number

1943.914

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Elisabeth Chase Geissbuhler, Rodin: Later Drawings, Beacon Press (Boston, 1963), p. 10, pl. 4
• Rodolfo Paras-Perez, "Notes on Rodin's Drawings", Art Quarterly (Summer 1967), 30, p. 136
• Claudie Judrin, Inventaire des dessins, Editions du Musée Rodin (Paris, France, 1984 - 1992), vol. 5, p. 373
• Trevor J. Fairbrother, "Possessions and Props: The Collection of John Singer Sargent", The Magazine Antiques (February 2001), vol. 159, no. 2, pp. 314-323, note 28 (p. 323)
• 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), cat. no. 114, repr. (color)
• Antoinette Le Normand-Romain, ed., Rodin in the United States: Confronting the Modern, exh. cat., Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute/Yale University Press (Williamstown, Massachusetts, 2022), repr. as fig. 3.9 on p. 52, p. 44 [detail]
• Laure de Margerie, French Sculpture: An American Passion, Snoeck and Institut National d'Historie de l'arte (Ghent, 2023), pp. 430, 432, repr. p. 430 as fig. 30

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

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