Nude Female Torso | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1998.287
People: Imitator of Auguste Rodin, French (Paris, France 1840 - 1917 Meudon, France)
Ernest Durig, Swiss (Zurich, Switzerland 1894 - 1962 Washington, DC)
Title: Nude Female Torso
Classification: Drawings
Work Type: drawing
Date: 19th-20th century
Culture: French
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/312329

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Watercolor and graphite on off-white wove paper

Dimensions

31.7 x 24.8 cm (12 1/2 x 9 3/4 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

Signed: lower right, graphite: Aug Rodin
inscription: Inscr., graphite, lower right: Aug Rodin

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Lois Orswell, Pomfret Center, CT, 1956, Bequest to Harvard University Art Museums, 1998. Orswell placed work on long-term loan from 1972 to 1998.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, The Lois Orswell Collection
Accession Year: 1998
Object Number: 1998.287
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. 196, pp. 340, 377

Verification Level

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