Auguste Rodin

Musée Rodin, Paris
Société d'Eclairage et de Chauffrage, France (acquired in 1941)
Private Collection, France
Nevill Keating Pictures, London (acquired by 1999)
Gallery Sakai, Tokyo
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Georges Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris, 1927, no. 148, illustration of the marble version p. 59
Albert E. Elsen, Rodin, New York, 1963, illustration of a larger cast p. 63
Robert Descharnes and Jean-François Chabrun, Auguste Rodin, Paris, 1967, illustration of the marble version p. 131
John L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, illustration of the marble version p. 77
Antoinette Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin, Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, Paris, 2007, illustration of another cast p. 161
Rainer Crone & Siegfried Salzmann, Rodin, Eros and Creativity, Munich, 1992, illustration of the marble version pl. 13
Albert E. Elsen, In Rodin's Studio, A photographic record of sculpture in the making, New York, 1980, illustration of the marble version pl. 108
Hélène Pinet, Rodin, Sculpteur et les photographes de son temps, Paris, 1985, illustration of the marble version pl. 15-18
Joan Vita Miller & Gary Marotta, Rodin, The B. Gerald Cantor Collection, New York, 1986, illustration of the marble version p. 177

Dark green and brown patina. Minor spots of corrosion in deeper crevices, particularly between legs, on feet, and on reverse of large rock. Minor patina rubbing on tops of heads and on female figure's left hand. Otherwise find, work is in very good condition.
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Fig. 1 Another version of the present work

Fig. 2 The present work in Rodin's Meudon studio, 1904-5. Photograph by Jacques-Ernest Bulloz.