Auguste Rodin

Musée Rodin, Paris

Eugène Rudier, Le Vésinet (acquired from the above in 1927)

M. Knoedler & Co., New York (acquired from the above in July 1927)

Jacob Epstein, Baltimore (acquired from the above in November 1927)

Thence by descent to the present owner

Judith Cladel, Auguste Rodin: L'oeuvre et l'homme, Brussels, 1908, pp. 32 and 161, illustration of the marble version

Camille Mauclair, Auguste Rodin: The Man, His Ideas, His Works, London, 1909, p. 12, illustration of another cast

Léonce Bénédite, Musée Rodin: Catalogue sommaire des oeuvres d'Auguste Rodin, Paris, 1924, p. 27

Judith Cladel, Auguste Rodin: Sa vie glorieuse, sa vie inconnue, Paris, 1936, pp. 142-43

Georges Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris, 1944, nos. 65-67, pp. 27-28, illustration of the plaster

Albert E. Elsen, Rodin, New York, 1963, pp. 39, 49, 151, 192 and 208, illustrations of other versions; p. 51

Robert Descharnes and Jean-François Chabrun, Auguste Rodin, Paris, 1967, p. 160

Ionel Jianou and Cécile Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris, 1967, p. 90, pl. 17, illustration of the plaster

John L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin: The Collection of the Rodin Museum, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 1976, pp. 148-57, fig. 8-7, illustrations of other casts

Nicole Barbier, Marbres de Rodin: Collection du Musée, Paris, 1987, no. 85, pp. 198-99, illustration of the marble version

Antoinette Le Normand-Romain, Rodin, The Gates of Hell, Paris, 1999, p. 41, illustration of another cast

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, no. 41, pp. 187-91, illustrations of other casts and the plaster

Antoinette Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin: Catalogue of the Works in the Musée Rodin, vol. 1, Paris, 2007, pp. 339-43, illustrations of other casts