
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
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Provenance
Alfred Stieglitz (1864–1946), New York, from 1910 [according to McCauley 2001]; Stieglitz Estate (Georgia O'Keefe (1887–1986), executor); given to the Art Institute, 1949.
Exhibition history
New York, Photo-Secession Gallery, 1910. Rochester, N.Y., Eastman House, "Photo-Secession," 1961. Bloomington, Ind., Indiana University, "Rodin," 1965. Washington, D.C., The National Gallery of Art, "Rodin Drawings: True and False," November 20, 1971-January 23, 1972, cat. 92; traveled to New York, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, March 9-May 14, 1972. Paris, Musée National de l'Art Moderne, May-September 1977. Paris, Musée d'Orsay, "Alfred Stieglitz and His Circle: Modernity in New York, 1905–1930," October 18, 2004-January 16, 2005, p. 82, cat. 29 (ill.). The Art Institute of Chicago, "Rodin: Sculptor and Storyteller", November 3, 2017 - March 4, 2018.
Publications
Camera Work, 34-35 (April-July 1911), p. 59 (ill.). Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1979), no. 5F4. Anne McCauley, "Auguste Rodin, 1908 and 1910: The Eternal Feminine," in Modern Art in America: Alfred Stieglitz and His New York Galleries (Washington D.C., 2001), pp. 77 and 494.
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Auguste Rodin / French, 1840-1917
- Date
- n.d.
- Medium
- Watercolor and graphite, with smudging, on cream wove paper
- Dimensions
- 32.8 × 50.2 cm (12 15/16 × 19 13/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- watercolor
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Alfred Stieglitz Collection
- Accession no.
- 1949.901
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