Head of Hanako (Ohta Hisa), model c. 1908, cast 1965

Not on View

Medium

bronze

Dimensions

overall (without base): 15.5 x 11.3 x 9 cm (6 1/8 x 4 7/16 x 3 9/16 in.)

Credit Line

Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon

Accession Number

1995.47.21

Artists / Makers

Auguste Rodin (sculptor) French, 1840 - 1917

Image Use

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Inscription

on proper lower left side: A. Rodin / N.12; inside head: A. Rodin; stamped into bronze at back of neck: G. Rudier / Fond.Paris.

Provenance

Cast 1965 by the Musée Rodin, Paris; sold to (Dominion Gallery, Montreal). (sale, Sotheby's, London, 30 November 1967, no. 76); purchased by (Hector Brame, Paris) for Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, Upperville, Virginia; gift 1995 to NGA.

Associated Names

Brame, Hector
Dominion Gallery
Mellon, Paul
Musée Rodin
Sotheby's

Bibliography

1917: Cladel, Judith. Rodin: The Man and His Art. Translated by S.K. Star. New York, 1917: 161-165.

1927: Grappe, Georges. Catalogue du Musée Rodin. Paris, 1927: 97.

1944: Grappe, Georges. Catalogue du Musée Rodin. 5th ed. Paris, 1944: 123-124.

1962: Keene, Donald. "Hanako." New Japan 14 (1962): 125-127.

1967: Spear, Athena Tacha. Rodin Sculpture in the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, 1967: 32-37, 93-94.

1976: Tancock, John. The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin. Philadelphia, 1976: 546-551.

1977: de Caso, Jacques, and Patricia B. Sanders. Rodin's Sculpture: A Critical Study of the Spreckels Collection. San Francisco, 1977: 304-309.

1979: Judrin, Claude. Rodin et l'Extrême-Orient. Exh. cat. Musée Rodin, Paris, 1979: 23-43.

1981: Rodin Rediscovered. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1981: 232-233.

1984: Suketaro, Swada. Little Hanako. Nagoya, 1984.

1987: Grunfeld, Frederic V. Rodin: A Biography. New York, 1987: 521-522.

1988: Beausire, Alain. Quand Rodin Exposait. Paris, 1988: 320, 323, 336, 367.

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: 392-394, color repro.