Alphonse Legros (1837-1911) | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1943.1142
People: Auguste Rodin, French (Paris, France 1840 - 1917 Meudon, France)
Alphonse Legros, French (1837 - 1911)
Title: Alphonse Legros (1837-1911)
Other Titles: Alternate Title: Bust of Alphonse Legros
Classification: Sculpture
Work Type: sculpture
Date: 1881-1882
Culture: French
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/230228

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Bronze, with black patina

Dimensions

43.8 x 21 x 23.4 cm (17 1/4 x 8 1/4 x 9 3/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

Signed: left side of neck and in interior: A. Rodin
inscription: back of neck, l.r., stamped: Alexis Rudier / Fondeur Paris

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: The artist, by exchange; to Achille Segard, 1910. [1] Private Collector, Paris, France, sold; [via Martin Birnbaum] to Grenville L. Winthrop, New York, NY, 1929, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943.

Notes
[1] Exchanged for a cast of Ugolino by Carpeaux. See Correspondance de Rodin III, p. 113, and Rodin Rediscovered, Judrin, p. 159-191

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop

Accession Year

1943

Object Number

1943.1142

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

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Publication History

Georges Grappe, Rodin, Oxford University Press (NY) and Oxford University Press (UK) (New York, NY, 1939), p. 144, repr. no. 26
Ionel Jianou and Cecile Goldscheider, Rodin, Editions d'Art, Arted, Paris (Paris, France, 1967), p. 94
John L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, David R. Godine and Philadelphia Museum of Art (Philadelphia, PA, 1976), p. 494
Albert Edward Elsen, Rodin Rediscovered, exh. cat., National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C, 1981), p. 191
Alain Beausire, ed., Correspondance de Rodin III 1908-1912, Editions du Musée Rodin (Paris, France, 1987), p. 113
Maria Rosa Figueiredo, Catalogo de Escultura Europeia vol. I, A Escultura Francesa, Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian (Lisbon, Portugal, 1992), p. 234, no. 58
Anna Tahinci, "Le Portrait Masculin chez Rodin" (1995), Unpublished, p. 187

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