Seated Nude, Head Bowed on Crossed Arms | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1942.95
People: Imitator of Auguste Rodin, French (Paris, France 1840 - 1917 Meudon, France)
Ernest Durig, Swiss (Zurich, Switzerland 1894 - 1962 Washington, DC)
Title: Seated Nude, Head Bowed on Crossed Arms
Classification: Drawings
Work Type: drawing
Date: 19th century
Culture: French
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/298010

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Watercolor and graphite on off-white wove paper

Dimensions

35.3 x 25.4 cm (13 7/8 x 10 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

Signed: lower right, graphite: AR / Aug Rodin

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Ernest Durig; [The Leonard Clayton Gallery, Inc., New York] sold; to Grenville L. Winthrop, 1936

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Grenville L. Winthrop, Class of 1886

Accession Year

1942

Object Number

1942.95

Division

European and American Art

Contact

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Publication History

Elisabeth Chase Geissbuhler, Rodin: Later Drawings, Beacon Press (Boston, 1963), pp. 19, 32, pl. 11
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), note 8 on p. 47

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