Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)

La jeunesse triomphante

Details

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Rodin, A.
La jeunesse triomphante
signed 'A Rodin' (on the front of the base); numbered and stamped with foundry mark '28 Epreuve Thiebault Fres. Fumire et Cie, Sucrs' (on the left side of the 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 1910-1915

Provenance

Acquired by the family of the present owner, 1967.

Literature

L. Maillard, Auguste Rodin, Statuaire: Etudes sur quelques artistes originaux, Paris, 1899, p. 141 (plaster version illustrated).
G. Grappe, Catalogue du Muse Rodin, Paris, 1944, no. 270 (plaster version illustrated).
I. Jianou and C. Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris, 1967, p. 106.
J.-L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, pp. 225-226, no. 26 (another cast illustrated, p. 227).
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

This sculpture was first exhibited at the Salon of 1896 under the title Fate and the Convalescent. It was also known as The Grandmother's Kiss. According to John Tancock, "La Jeunesse triomphante, 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).

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