Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)

Saint-Jean Baptiste prêchant

Details

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Saint-Jean Baptiste prêchant
signed and stamped with foundry mark 'A. Rodin Thiébaut Frères Fumiére et Gavignot Srs Paris' (on the base)
bronze with brown patina
Height: 19 5/8 in. (49.8 cm.)
Conceived in 1878; this bronze version cast between 1898-1907

Provenance

Acquired by the family of the present owner, circa 1910.

Literature

G. Grappe, Le Musée Rodin, Paris, 1947, p. 140, no. 37 (large bronze version illustrated, pl. 37).
A.E. Elsen, Rodin, New York, 1963, pp. 27-33 (large bronze versions illustrated, pp. 26 and 29).
R. Descharnes and J.-F. Chabrun, Auguste Rodin, Lausanne, 1967, p. 56 (large bronze version illustrated).
I. Jianou and C. Goldschieder, Auguste Rodin, Paris, 1967, p. 86 (large bronze version illustrated, pl. 9).
J.L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, pp. 357-364, no. 65 (large bronze version illustrated, pp. 358, 359 and 361).
C. Goldscheider, Auguste Rodin, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre sculpté, Paris, 1989, vol. I, pp. 128-129, no. 102e (large bronze version illustrated).

Lot Essay

On 4 April 1898, Rodin signed a contract with the Thiébaut Frères foundry in Paris for an edition in bronze of his sculpture Saint-Jean the Baptist. Three reductions were executed from the larger than life-sized version acquired by the French State in 1881. The present sculpture is the deuxième réduction of which only 8 casts were made.

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