Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)

La jeunesse triomphante

Details

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
La jeunesse triomphante
signed 'A Rodin'(on the front of the base); numbered and stamped with foundry mark '17c Epc, Fumire et cie, sucrs' (on the back of base)
bronze with green and brown patina
Height: 20.5/8 in. (52.4 cm.)
Original version executed in 1894; this bronze version cast between 1898-1915

Literature

I. Jianou and C. Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris, 1967, p. 106.
A.T. Spear, Rodin Sculpture in the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, 1967, pp. 74-76 and 110-111 (another cast illustrated, pl. 94).
J.L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, pp. 225-226, no. 26 (another cast illlustrated, p. 227).
J. de Caso and P.B. Sanders, Rodin's Sculptue, A Critical Study of the Spreckels Collection, San Francisco, 1977, pp. 54-55, no. 3 (another cast illustrated).
A. Elsen, In Rodin's Studio, Oxford, 1980, pp. 171-172, no. 50 (plaster version illustrated).
C. Lampert, Rodin: Sculpture and Drawings, London, 1986, pp. 31 and 45, no. 35 (another cast illustrated).

Lot Essay

According to John Tancock, "La Jeunesse triomphant is a combination of two figures originally conceived separately. The seated female figure is that of The Helmet-Maker's Wife while the figure of the young girl probably...from The Gates of Hell is used in a number of other compositions" (op. cit, p. 225).