Provenance

Musée Rodin, Paris, 1962 (Inventory No. I.489)
Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris, to 28 February 1963
Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York, 28 February 1963-17 May 1966
Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966

Exhibition History

GALERIE CLAUDE BERNARD, Paris. "August Rodin," January-February 1963, no. 14, ill.

HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Inaugural Exhibition," 1 October 1974-15 September 1975.

NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART, Washington, DC. "Rodin Rediscovered," 28 June 1981-2 May 1982, no. 281 (as 1908 (?) enlargement from 1880-81 work).

Published References

JIANOU, IONEL and CECILE GOLDSCHEIDER. Rodin (Paris: Arted, 1967), p. 89.

UNSIGNED. "Sculpture: Fresh-Air Fun," Time 90 (8 September 1967), colorpl. p. 75, p. 77.

ARNASON, H. HARVARD. History of Modern Art (New York: Abrams, 1968), p. 60, ill. 78.

LERNER, ABRAM, et al. The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (New York: Abrams, 1974), p. 740, ill. 89.

TANCOCK, JOHN L. The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin (Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1976), no. 6, other casts, p. 140.

FLETCHER, VALERIE J. A Garden for Art: Outdoor Sculpture at the Hirshhorn Museum (Washington, DC: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in association with Thames and Hudson, New York, 1998), no. 1. ill. p. 38, fig. 28, p. 30.

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