Inscription
on lower right on back, a red wax seal with initials: HG
Provenance
Made from a cast of a terracotta (no longer extant) owned by Gabriel Hanotaux [1853-1944]; by descent to his nephew, A. de Fondscolombe. (sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 26 May 1977, no. 50 bis).[1] (sale, Sotheby's, London, 29 March 1984, no. 523).[2] (sale, Hôtel des Ventes, Enghien-les-Bains, 25 June 1987, no. 208); B. Gerald Cantor Art Foundation, New York; gift 1988 to NGA.
Bibliography
- 1927
- Grappe, Georges. Catalogue du Musée Rodin. Paris, 1927: 114.
- 1944
- Grappe, Georges. Catalogue du Musée Rodin. 5th ed. Paris, 1944: 136-138.
- 1970
- Nicolson, Benedict. "Rodin and Lady Sackville." The Burlington Magazine 112 (January 1970): 37-43.
- 1981
- Rosenfeld, Daniel. "Rodin's Carved Sculpture." In Rodin Rediscovered. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1981: 99-100.
- 1985
- Hare, Marion. "The Portraiture of Auguste Rodin." Ph.D. dissertation, Stanford University, 1985: 617-624.
- 1987
- Barbier, Nicolle. Marbres de Rodin: collection du musée. Paris, 1987: 76-77.
- 1987
- Grunfeld, Frederic V. Rodin: A Biography. New York, 1987: 613-618.
- 1987
- Hare, Marion. "Rodin and His English Sitters." The Burlington Magazine 129 (June 1987): 372-381.
- 1993
- Butler, Ruth. Rodin. The Shape of Genius. New Haven and London, 1993: 483-487.
- 1994
- Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: 206, repro.
- 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: 402-406, color repro.
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