Harvard Art Museums > 1943.916: Study for "The Gates of Hell": Shades Speaking to Dante Drawings Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Study for "The Gates of Hell": Shades Speaking to Dante (Auguste Rodin) , 1943.916,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Apr 24, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/297720. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 1943.916 People Auguste Rodin, French (Paris, France 1840 - 1917 Meudon, France) Title Study for "The Gates of Hell": Shades Speaking to Dante Other Titles Original Language Title: La Porte de l'Enfer Classification Drawings Work Type drawing Date c. 1883 Culture French Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/297720 Physical Descriptions Medium Black ink, gray wash, and white gouache over graphite on tan wove paper with ruled lines Dimensions irregular: 19.4 x 11.8 cm (7 5/8 x 4 5/8 in.) Provenance Recorded Ownership History Scott and Fowles, New York; acquired by Grenville L. Winthrop, January 1926 ($450); his bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1943. Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop Accession Year 1943 Object Number 1943.916 Division European and American Art Contact am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu Permissions THIS WORK MAY NOT BE LENT BY THE TERMS OF ITS ACQUISITION TO THE HARVARD ART MUSEUMS. The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Descriptions Description Drawing is irregularly shaped like an upside-down "L" and is laid down to tan paper, itself laid down to blue mount. Publication History Octave Mirebeau, Les dessins d'Auguste Rodin: 129 planches comprenant 142 dessins reproduits en facsimile par la Maison Goupil (2 vols.), Maison Goupil, pl. 42 (as "Ombres parlant à Dante") G. Dargenty, "Le Salon national", L'Art (1883), repr. pg. 33 Roger Marx, "Cartons d'artistes", L'image (September 1897), pp. 294-95 Philip R. Adams, Auguste Rodin, Hyperion Press (New York, 1945), pl. 1 Martin Birnbaum, Jacovleff and Other Artists, Paul A. Struck (New York, 1946), pl. 28 Albert Edward Elsen, Rodin's Gates of Hell, University of Minnesota Press (Minneapolis, 1960), pg. 16, pl. 15 Albert Edward Elsen and J. Kirk T. Varnedoe, The Drawings of Rodin, Praeger Publishers (New York, 1971), pp. 61-62, fig. 42 Claudie Judrin, Inventaire des dessins, Editions du Musée Rodin (Paris, France, 1984 - 1992), p. 375 Catherine Lampert, Rodin: Sculpture and Drawings, exh. cat., Arts Council of Great Britain/Yale University Press (London, England and New Haven, CT, 1986), under no. 52 Ruth Butler, Rodin: The Shape of Genius, Yale University Press (New Haven, CT and London, England, 1993), fig. 61a Chikashi Kitazaki and Mina Oya, ed., Between Reality and Dreams: Nineteenth Century British and French Art from the Winthrop Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, exh. cat., National Museum of Western Art (Ueno, 2002), p. 59, fig. 14 Stephan Wolohojian, ed., A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University, exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press (U.S.) (New York, 2003), cat. no. 115, repr. (color) Drawing on Fresh Interpretations, Index Magazine, Harvard Art Museums (March 17, 2017), [e-journal], http://magazine.harvardartmuseums.org/article/2017/03/17/drawing-fresh-interpretations, accessed 3/20/2017 Ewa Lajer-Burcharth and Elizabeth M. Rudy, ed., Drawing: The Invention of a Modern Medium, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2017), pp. 101, 282, repr. p. 101 as fig. 4 Antoinette Le Normand-Romain, ed., Rodin in the United States: Confronting the Modern, exh. cat., Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute/Yale University Press (Williamstown, Massachusetts, 2022), pp. 49-52, 54, repr. as fig. 3.6 on p. 50 Exhibition History A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 10/23/2003 - 01/25/2004 Drawing: The Invention of a Modern Medium, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/21/2017 - 05/07/2017 Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of European and American Art at am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
