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    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    Horseman (recto); Horse and Rider (verso)
    Auguste Rodin. Horseman (recto); Horse and Rider (verso), 1889. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00004895

    Horseman (recto); Horse and Rider (verso)

    by Auguste Rodin

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago

    Inscriptions

    Inscribed lower left, on mount, in graphite: "1889 / Aug / Rodin"

    Provenance

    Given by the artist to Edward Steichen (1879-1973) [notes in curatorial file]; given to Alfred Stieglitz (1864–1946), New York, December 1910 [notes in curatorial file]; Stieglitz Estate (Georgia O'Keefe (1887–1986), executor); given to the Art Institute, 1949.

    Exhibition history

    New York, Photo-Secession Gallery, "Rodin Drawings," 1910 (recto). Washington D.C., The National Gallery of Art, "Rodin Drawings: True and False," November 20, 1971-January 23, 1972, cat. 1; traveled to The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, March 9-May 14, 1972 (recto and verso). Washington D.C., The National Gallery of Art, "Rodin Rediscovered," July 4-October 4, 1981; traveled to The Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, February 15-May 20, 1982, and the Musée Rodin, Paris, June-August 1982 (recto). Williamstown, MA, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Museum, "Rodin in the United States: Confronting the Modern", June 18 - September 18, 2022, traveled to Atlanta, High Museum of Art, October 21, 2022 - January 15, 2023, pp. 112 (ill.), 244, cat. 38, cat. by Anntoinette Le Normand-Romain and Christina Buley-Uribe, et. al.

    Publications

    Camera Work, nos. 34-35 (April-July 1911), p. 25 (recto). Albert Elsen, Rodin (New York, 1967), p. 156 (recto). Albert Elsen and J. Kirk T. Varnedoe, The Drawings of Rodin (New York, 1971), cover and no. 1 (ill.) (recto). Marius de Zayas and Francis M. Naumann, “How, When, and Why Modern Art Came to New York, Arts Magazine 54:8 (April 1980), p. 98, fig. 6 (recto). Marius de Zayas, edited by Francis M. Naumann, How, When, and Why Modern Art Came to New York (Cambridge, Mass, 1996), pp. 3 and 245, fig. 8 (recto).

    Open-access museum data

    This record comes from the open-access collection data that the Art Institute of Chicago publishes for unrestricted use (Creative Commons Zero). Art Trackers shows a selection of the museum's published fields. The Art Institute of Chicago is not an Art Trackers client and has not reviewed or endorsed this page; the museum's own website is the authoritative record.

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    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Auguste Rodin / French, 1840-1917
    Date
    1889
    Medium
    Gouache, with pen and brown and black ink and traces of magenta ink (faded), over graphite (recto), and graphite (verso) on cream wove paper, tipped onto cream wove paper
    Dimensions
    21.7 × 17.4 cm (8 9/16 × 6 7/8 in.)
    Type
    Drawing
    Classification
    gouache
    Place
    France
    Department
    Prints and Drawings
    Credit line
    Alfred Stieglitz Collection
    Accession no.
    1949.580

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