Auguste Rodin 1840-1917

Musée Rodin, Paris
Makler Gallery, Philadelphia (acquired from the above in July, 1976)
Acquired from the above in 1977

Bernard Champigneulle, Rodin, London, 1967, no. 91, illustration of the plaster version p. 182.
Robert Descharnes and Jean-François Chabrun, Auguste Rodin, Lausanne, 1967, illustration of the plaster version p. 170.
Ionel Jianou and Cecile Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris, 1967, p. 105
John L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, pp. 425-445 illustration of the plaster version p. 438, nos. 72-76-78.
Albert E. Elsen, Rodin's Art: The Rodin Collection of the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, New York, 2003, pp. 392-395, no. 103, illustration of another cast p. 394

Patina is in very good condition. There are several areas where there in an excess of old wax build-up, especially along figure's sleeves and pant crevices. Work would benefit from a light cleaning. There are areas of patina discoloration along back of figure, but otherwise, fine.
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This work will be included in the forthcoming Catalogue Critique de l'Oeuvre Sculpté d'Auguste Rodin currently being prepared by the Comité Rodin under the direction of Jérôme Le Blay under the archive number 2008-1789B.