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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.910
People
Auguste Rodin, French (Paris, France 1840 - 1917 Meudon, France)
Title
Saint John the Baptist
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1880
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/297446

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black ink with touches of graphite on light tan wove paper
Dimensions
32.8 x 23.9 cm (12 15/16 x 9 7/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: lower right, black ink, in artist's hand: Salon de 1880 / A Rodin
  • inscription: lower center, on base of statue, black ink, in artist's hand: Rodin
  • inscription: verso, lower right, graphite: no 21

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Baron Joseph Vitta, Paris; his sale, Galerie Charpentier, Paris, March 15, 1935, no. 12; acquired at that sale through Jacques Seligmann and Co., New York, by Grenville L. Winthrop (Fr 25,000); 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
1943.910
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Paul Leroi, "Salon de 1880", L'art (1880), 22, pg. 124
  • [Reproduction Only], Revue de l'art, (April 1935)., pg. 181
  • Henry Geldzahler, "Two Early Matisse Drawings", Gazette des Beaux-Arts (November 1962), vol. LX, ser. 6, pp. 497-505, p. 499
  • Albert Edward Elsen and J. Kirk T. Varnedoe, The Drawings of Rodin, Praeger Publishers (New York, 1971), p. 60, figs. 36 and 37 (detail)
  • Victoria Thorson, Rodin Graphics: A Catalogue Raisonné of Drypoints and Book Illustrations, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (San Francisco, 1975), pg. 14, fig. i
  • 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), repr. p. 75; p. 79, note no. 7
  • Peter Fusco and H. W. Janson, The Romantics to Rodin: French Nineteenth-Century Sculpture from North American Collections, exh. cat., Los Angeles County Museum (Los Angeles, CA, 1980), p. 348 note 8
  • J.A. Schmoll gen. Eisenwerth, Rodin-Studien: Personlichkeit, Werke, Wirkung, Bibliographie, Prestel Verlag (Munich, Germany, 1983), p. 124 and fig. 72
  • Jacques Vilain and Stephanie Le Follic, Rodin at the Musée Rodin, Scala Books (London, England, 1996 and 1997), repr. p. 24
  • 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. 113, repr. (color)
  • Daniel M. Mendelowitz, David L. Faber, and Duane A. Wakeham, A Guide to Drawing, Thomson Wadsworth (Belmont, CA, 2007), fig. 17-16, p. 338
  • Louis-Antoine Prat, Le dessin français au XIXe siècle, Somogy Éditions d'Art (Paris, 2011), p. 494
  • 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), p. 47

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

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