La jeunesse triomphante

Details

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
La jeunesse triomphante
signed 'A. Rodin' (on the front of the base); stamped with foundry mark 'Thiebault Fres. Fumiere et Cie, Scrs' and inscribed 'Cire perdue 3ème epreuve' (on the right side of the base)
bronze with brown and green patina
Height: 19½ in. (49.5 cm.)
Conceived in 1894; this bronze version cast between 1916-1919 in a special edition of six in the lost wax technique

Literature

L. Maillard, Auguste Rodin, Statuaire: Etudes sur quelques artistes originaux, Paris, 1899 (plaster version illustrated, p. 141; titled La Parque et la jeune fille).
I. Jianou and C. Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris, 1967, p. 108.
J.L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, pp. 225-226, no. 26 (another cast illustrated, p. 227).
J. de Caso and P.B. Sanders, Rodin's Sculpture, A Critical Study of the Spreckels Collection, San Francisco, 1977, no. 3 (another cast illustrated, p. 54).
A.E. Elsen, In Rodin's Studio, Oxford, 1980, no. 50 (plaster version illustrated).
L. Ambrosini and M. Facos, Rodin, The Cantor Gift to the Brooklyn Museum, New York, 1987, no. 22 (another cast illustrated, p. 89).
A.E. Elsen, Rodin's Art, The Rodin Collection of the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, Oxford, 2003, p. 223, no. 52 (other casts illustrated, pp. 223-224).

Lot Essay

This work will be included in the forthcoming Auguste Rodin catalogue critique de l'oeuvre sculpté currently being prepared by the Comité Rodin under the archive number 2004V583B.

La jeunesse triomphante was first exhibited at the Salon of 1896; it was also known as Le baiser de la grand-mèrei According to John Tancock, "Youth Triumphant [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...a reject from the The Gates of Hell, is used in a number of other compositions. In the work known as Aesculapius, the young girl is held in the arms of a male figure while, together with another nude and enlarged, she is used in the work known as The Earth and the Moon" (op. cit., p. 225).

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