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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.1155
People
Auguste Rodin, French (Paris, France 1840 - 1917 Meudon, France)
Title
Burgher of Calais: Eustache de Saint-Pierre
Classification
Sculpture
Work Type
sculpture
Date
after 1895, cast c.1916-1917
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/230007

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Bronze
Dimensions
47.6 x 24.5 x 15.2 cm (18 3/4 x 9 5/8 x 6 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: upper left of base and in interior, in relief: A. Rodin
  • inscription: right rear of base, incised: ALEXIS RUDIER. / Fondeur. PARIS.
  • inscription: base, incised: A. Mr. Emile Chouanard

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Auguste Rodin, the artist, gift; to Emile Chouanard, Paris, 1890. [Scott & Fowles, New York], sold; to Grenville Lindall Winthrop, New York, possibly 1923 or 1925, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943

Notes
[1] Dates of June 18 or October 4 1923 or Sept 24 1925 have been suggested for Winthrop's acquisition.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.1155
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Robin Jones and Robert Kuretsky, Rodin: the Burghers of Calais, a Presentation in Film and Sculpture, 1969 (18 minute film made by HU graduate students, shown at the Fogg 11/14/69-1/28/70)
  • John L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, David R. Godine and Philadelphia Museum of Art (Philadelphia, PA, 1976), p. 400, under no. 67
  • 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), no. 122, pp. 296-299, repr. in color
  • Stephan Wolohojian, Ingres, Burne-Jones, Whistler, Renoir... La Collection Grenville L. Winthrop, exh. cat., Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon and Réunion des Musées Nationaux (Paris, France, 2003), no. 122, pp. 304-307, repr. in color
  • Laure de Margerie, French Sculpture: An American Passion, Snoeck and Institut National d'Historie de l'arte (Ghent, 2023), p. 432

Exhibition History

  • Rodin: The Burghers of Calais, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 11/14/1969 - 01/28/1970
  • 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

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