Harvard Art Museums > 1943.1154: Burgher of Calais: The Man with the Key, Jean d'Aire Sculpture Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Burgher of Calais: The Man with the Key, Jean d'Aire (Auguste Rodin) , 1943.1154,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, May 01, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/230216. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 1943.1154 People Auguste Rodin, French (Paris, France 1840 - 1917 Meudon, France) Title Burgher of Calais: The Man with the Key, Jean d'Aire Classification Sculpture Work Type sculpture Date after 1895 Culture French Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/230216 Physical Descriptions Medium Bronze Dimensions 47 x 16.5 x 15.9 cm (18 1/2 x 6 1/2 x 6 1/4 in.) Inscriptions and Marks Signed: top of base and interior of bronze: A. Rodin inscription: side of base, incised: ALEXIS RUDIER / Fondeur. PARIS. Provenance Recorded Ownership History [Scott & Fowles, New York, NY], sold to; Grenville L. Winthrop, New York, NY, 1926, 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 1943.1154 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. 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. 397, no. 67 Maria Rosa Figueiredo, A Escultura Francesa, Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian (Lisbon, Portugal, 1992), listed p. 225, under no. 56 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. 121, 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. 121, 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 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
