Enguerrande dans la cabane du pêcheur

Details

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Enguerrande dans la cabane du pêcheur
signed 'A Rodin' (lower left)
pen and ink on paper
8 5/8 x 6 in. (22 x 15.2 cm.)
Drawn in 1884

Provenance

Emile Bergerat, by whom acquired directly from the artist in 1884.
Private collection, France.
Anonymous sale, Sotheby’s, New York, 5 November 2009, lot 229.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Literature

V. Thorson, Rodin Graphics, A Catalogue Raisonné of Drypoints and Book Illustrations, San Francisco, 1975, pp. 79-80.

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Lot Essay

Christina Buley-Uribe will include this drawing in her forthcoming Catalogue raisonné des dessins et peintures d'Auguste Rodin under the number 90502.

This drawing is a preparation for Rodin’s illustration for the publication of Emile Bergerat’s play, Enguerrande, poème dramatique (Paris, 1884).

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