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Auguste Rodin

Eve Eating the Apple, c. 1885

West Building, Ground Floor — Gallery G1-C

Medium

terracotta

Dimensions

overall: 23 x 27 x 15.6 cm (9 1/16 x 10 5/8 x 6 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mrs. John W. Simpson

Accession Number

1942.5.7

Artists / Makers

Auguste Rodin (sculptor) French, 1840 - 1917

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Inscription

on self-base below left leg: A. Rodin

Provenance

Acquired possibly 1905 from the artist by Mr. and Mrs. John W. Simpson, New York;[1] gift 1942 to NGA.

[1] In her letter to the artist of 13 October 1905 (Musée Rodin Archives, Paris), Mrs. Simpson referred to works that Rodin had given her and that needed to be repaired and fired again. Eve Eating the Apple, which has a broken leg, may well have been one of these. There are no other references in the correspondence between Mrs. Simpson and Rodin about the Simpsons having received terracottas.

Associated Names

Simpson, John W., Mrs.

Exhibition History

1946: Rodin: Sculpture, Drawings, Prints, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1946, no. 12, as Eve.

1965: Wax Sculptures by Degas, Sculptures and Drawings by Rodin, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1965-1966, no cat.

1974: Nineteenth-Century Sculpture, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1974, unnumbered checklist.

1981: Rodin Rediscovered, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1981-1982, not in cat.

2017: Rodin, l’exposition du centenaire, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, 2017, no. 109.

Bibliography

1965: Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 167.

1968: National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 147, repro.

1976: Frel, Jiri, and Harvey West. Rodin: The Maryhill Collection. Exh. cat. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; Washington State University, Pullman. Pullman, 1976: 34.

1976: Tancock, John. The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin. Philadelphia, 1976: 264-265, 626.

1992: Barbier, Nicolle. Rodin sculpteur: Oeuvres méconnues. Exh. cat. Musée Rodin, Paris, 1992: 41-51.

1994: Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: 201, repro.

1998: Porter, John R., and Yves Lacasse. Rodin à Québec. Quebec, 1998: 32-33.

2000: Butler, Ruth, and Suzanne Glover Lindsay, with Alison Luchs, Douglas Lewis, Cynthia J. Mills, and Jeffrey Weidman. European Sculpture of the Nineteenth Century. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 2000: 348-351, color repro.