Property from a European Royal Collection
Auguste Rodin
L'un des Bourgeois de Calais: Pierre de Wiessant, vêtu, réduction
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March 5, 04:45 PM GMT
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Property from a European Royal Collection
Auguste Rodin
1840 - 1917
L'un des Bourgeois de Calais: Pierre de Wiessant, vêtu, réduction
inscribed A. Rodin and with the foundry mark Alexis Rudier. Fondeur. Paris. (on the base); stamped A. Rodin (on the interior)
bronze
height: 44.5 cm. 17½ in.
Conceived between 1887 and 1895; this version was conceived in 1895. The present work cast by the Alexis Rudier Foundry, Paris in April 1949 in addition to at least 50 known examples by various foundries.
This work will be included in the forthcoming Catalogue Critique de l'œuvre sculpté d'Auguste Rodin being currently prepared by Galerie Brame & Lorenceau under the direction of Jérôme Le Blay under the archive number 2025-7325B.
Musée Rodin, Paris
Eugène Rudier, Paris (acquired from the above in April 1949)
Vincent Jules Auriol, President of France (1947 - 1954)
Her Royal Highness, Countess Marie-Gabrielle Aldegunde Wilhelmine Louise of Holstein-Ledreborg, Princess of Luxembourg, Princess of Bourbon-Parme, Princess of Nassau (1925 - 2023), (as a wedding gift in 1951 from the above)
Thence by descent to the present owners in 2023
Exh. Cat., Paris, Musée du Louvre, Rodin inconnu, 1962-63, n.n., p. 30, another cast illustrated
John L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, no. 67-69-13, p. 390, another cast illustrated
Jacques de Caso and Patricia B. Sanders, Rodin's Sculpture. A Critical Study of the Spreckels Collection, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 1977, no. 44, pp. 215-16 and 223, another cast illustrated
Exh. Cat., Calais, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Auguste Rodin. Le Monument des Bourgeois de Calais (1884-1895) dans les collections du Musée Rodin et du Musée des Beaux-Arts de Calais, 1977-78, no. 87, p. 223, another cast illustrated
Clare Vincent, "Rodin at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. A History of the Collection", The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, vol. XXXVIII, no. 4, Spring 1981, no. 55, p. 44, another cast illustrated
Antoinette Le Normand-Romain and Annette Haudiquet, Rodin: The Burghers of Calais, Paris, 2001, no. 53, p. 47, larger version illustrated
Antoinette Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin: Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, vol. I, Paris, 2007, p. 237, another cast illustrated
Exh. Cat., London, The Sladmore Gallery, Rodin's Burghers of Calais Under the Spotlight, 2015, n.p., another cast illustrated