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 2001V8B.
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Saint-Jean Baptiste, moyen modèle
Details
Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Saint-Jean Baptiste, moyen modèle
signed and stamped with foundry mark 'A Rodin THIEBAUT FRERES FONDEURS PARIS Fumière et Gavignot Srs' (on the top of the base); inscribed 'Première Epreuve' (on the back of the base)
bronze with brown patina
Height: 31¼ in. (79.3 cm.)
Conceived in 1878; this size by reduction in 1898; this bronze version cast circa 1898-1900
Saint-Jean Baptiste, moyen modèle
signed and stamped with foundry mark 'A Rodin THIEBAUT FRERES FONDEURS PARIS Fumière et Gavignot Srs' (on the top of the base); inscribed 'Première Epreuve' (on the back of the base)
bronze with brown patina
Height: 31¼ in. (79.3 cm.)
Conceived in 1878; this size by reduction in 1898; this bronze version cast circa 1898-1900
Provenance
Anon. sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 7 November 2001, lot 278.
Anon. sale, Christie's, New York, 7 May 2002, lot 1.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Anon. sale, Christie's, New York, 7 May 2002, lot 1.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Literature
G. Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris, 1927, no. 20 (larger plaster version illustrated).
G. Grappe, Le Musée Rodin, Monaco, 1947, p. 37 (another cast
illustrated).
A.E. Elsen, Rodin, New York, 1963, pp. 26-33 (another cast
illustrated).
R. Descharnes and J.-F. Chabrun, Auguste Rodin, Lausanne, 1967, pp. 56-57 (larger cast illustrated).
B. Champigneulle, Rodin, London, 1967, pp. 54-55, no. 15 (another
cast illustrated).
I. Jianou and C. Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris, 1967, pl. 9 (another cast illustrated).
J.L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976,
pp. 357-369, no. 65 (larger cast illustrated).
C. Goldscheider, Auguste Rodin, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre
sculpté, Paris, 1989, vol. I, pp. 128-129, no. 102e (larger cast
illustrated).
M.L. Levkoff, Rodin in His Time, New York, 1994, pp. 50-53, no. 10 (another cast illustrated).
A.E. Elsen, Rodin's Art: The Rodin Collection of the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, New York, 2003, p. 544 (another cast illustrated, fig. 446).
G. Grappe, Le Musée Rodin, Monaco, 1947, p. 37 (another cast
illustrated).
A.E. Elsen, Rodin, New York, 1963, pp. 26-33 (another cast
illustrated).
R. Descharnes and J.-F. Chabrun, Auguste Rodin, Lausanne, 1967, pp. 56-57 (larger cast illustrated).
B. Champigneulle, Rodin, London, 1967, pp. 54-55, no. 15 (another
cast illustrated).
I. Jianou and C. Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris, 1967, pl. 9 (another cast illustrated).
J.L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976,
pp. 357-369, no. 65 (larger cast illustrated).
C. Goldscheider, Auguste Rodin, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre
sculpté, Paris, 1989, vol. I, pp. 128-129, no. 102e (larger cast
illustrated).
M.L. Levkoff, Rodin in His Time, New York, 1994, pp. 50-53, no. 10 (another cast illustrated).
A.E. Elsen, Rodin's Art: The Rodin Collection of the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, New York, 2003, p. 544 (another cast illustrated, fig. 446).
Sale room notice
Please note that this work was conceived in 1878; this size reduction by 1898; this bronze version cast circa 1899.