Details
AUGUSTE RODIN (1840-1917)
Mercure debout
signed, numbered and inscribed on the back A. Rodin no. 12 © by musée Rodin 1965--inscribed on the base Georges. Rudier Fondeur. Paris.--bronze with dark brown and green patina
Height: 14 in. (35.5 cm.)
Original plaster version executed in 1888; this bronze version cast in 1965, number 12 in an edition of 12
Mercure debout
signed, numbered and inscribed on the back A. Rodin no. 12 © by musée Rodin 1965--inscribed on the base Georges. Rudier Fondeur. Paris.--bronze with dark brown and green patina
Height: 14 in. (35.5 cm.)
Original plaster version executed in 1888; this bronze version cast in 1965, number 12 in an edition of 12
Provenance
Musée Rodin, Paris
Literature
G. Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris, 1927, no. 123 (plaster version illustrated, p. 55)
J.L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, pp. 250 and 462
J.L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, pp. 250 and 462