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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.1152
People
Auguste Rodin, French (Paris, France 1840 - 1917 Meudon, France)
Title
The Man with the Broken Nose
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Mask of the Man with the Broken Nose
Classification
Sculpture
Work Type
sculpture
Date
1863-1864
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/230006

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Bronze, with brown patina
Technique
Cast, sand
Dimensions
43 x 26.7 x 19 cm (16 15/16 x 10 1/2 x 7 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • label: removed from base, now in curatorial file, black ink, paper, typewritten: AUG. RODIN / "L'Homme au nez Casse" / This cast was given to Gustave Natorp / by Rodin, being the first of six only / which were cast for the artist. / Monsieur Natorp was the pupil / and friend of Rodin.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Gustave Natorp, Purchased [in London?], 1882. [Scott & Fowles, New York, NY], sold; to Grenville L. Winthrop, New York, NY, 1923, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.1152
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Anne Leslie, Rodin, Immortal Peasant, Prentice-Hall (New York, NY, 1937), pp. 41, 84
  • Ionel Jianou and Cecile Goldscheider, Rodin, Editions d'Art, Arted, Paris (Paris, France, 1967), p. 84, pl. 5
  • Jeanne L. Wasserman, ed., Metamorphoses in Nineteenth-Century Sculpture, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1975), repr. p. 158, fig. 8, text p. 157, checklist p. 178
  • John L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, David R. Godine and Philadelphia Museum of Art (Philadelphia, PA, 1976), listed, p. 476
  • Jacques de Caso and Patricia B. Sanders, Rodin's Sculpture: A Critical Study of the Spreckels Collection, Charles E. Tuttle Co. (Rutland, VT and Tokyo, Japan, 1977), p. 250-257, no. 50
  • Monique Laurent, "Observations on Rodin and His Founders", Rodin Rediscovered, ed. Albert Edward Elsen, National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C., 1982), p. 286
  • Alain Beausire, Quand Rodin Exposait, Editions du Musée Rodin (Paris, France, 1988), p. 77
  • Anna Tahinci, "Private Patronage: Rodin and his Early British Collectors", Rodin, the Zola of Sculpture, ed. Claudine Mitchell, Ashgate Publishing (Burlington, VT, 2004), pp. 95-117, p. 108, repr. as fig. 5.1

Exhibition History

  • Annual Exhibition, 1876, Salon, Paris, Paris, 01/01/1876 - 12/31/1876
  • Unidentified Exhibition, Grosvenor Gallery, 1881, Grosvenor Gallery, London, 01/01/1881 - 12/31/1881
  • Metamorphoses in 19th-Century Sculpture, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 11/19/1975 - 01/07/1976

Verification Level

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