Provenance
William Turner Dannat, Paris, by whom acquired directly from the artist in exchange for a painting in July 1894.
Jules Mastbaum, Philadelphia, by 1926, and thence by descent.
Private collection, United States, by whom acquired from the above.
Literature
G. Grappe, Catalogue du musée Rodin, Paris, 1938, no. 58.
G. Grappe, Catalogue du musée Rodin, Paris, 1944, no. 179.
C. Judrin Rodin et les ecrivans de son temps, Paris, 1976, pp. 52-53 (bronze version illustrated).
J. L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, pp. 29, 46-47 (bronze version illustrated p. 46, pl. 7).
F.V. Grunfeld, Rodin: A Biography, New York, 1988, pp. 220-221.
A. Beausire, Quand Rodin exposait, Paris, 1988, p. 121.
A.E. Elsen, Rodin’s Art: The Rodin Collection of the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, New York, 2003, pp. 225-227, nos. 53-54 (bronze and plaster versions illustrated pp. 225-6).
A. Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin: Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, Paris, 2007, vol. I, pp. 355-356 (bronze version illustrated, p. 355).
A. Le Normand-Romain, Rodin, New York, 2014, pp. 225, 233.
