Provenance
Sir Patrick Ford, Edinburgh, by whom acquired directly from the artist in November 1908, and thence by descent; sale, Sotheby's, London, 4 December 1985, lot 117.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Literature
L. Maillard, Études sur quelques artistes originaux, Auguste Rodin statuaire, Paris, 1989, pp. 146 & 155.
L. Bénédite, Catalogue sommaire des oeuvres d'August Rodin et
autre oeuvres d'art de la donation Rodin, Paris, 1919, no. 158.
G. Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris, 1927, no. 166 (another cast illustrated).
E. Herriot, Rodin, Paris, 1949, no. 36 (another cast illustrated).
M. Aubert, Rodin Sculptures, Paris, 1952, p. 49 (another cast illustrated).
B. Champigneulle, Rodin, London, 1967, no. 107 (another cast illustrated p. 214).
I. Jianou and C. Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris, 1967, p. 104.
J.L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, p. 222, no. 25-2 (another cast illustrated p. 223).
A. Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin, Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, vol. I, Paris, 2007, pp. 376-377 (another cast illustrated).
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