Saint Jean Baptiste, petit modèle dite aussi 'réduction no. 2'

Details

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Saint Jean Baptiste, petit modèle dite aussi 'réduction no. 2'
signed 'A Rodin' (on the top of the base); inscribed with foundry mark, inscribed and dated 'Georges.Rudier Fondeur.Paris © by musée Rodin 1955' (on the back of the base); with raised signature 'A. Rodin' (on the underside)
bronze with dark brown and green patina
Height: 19¾ in. (50.2 cm.)
Conceived in 1878-1880; this bronze version cast in 1955

Provenance

Musée Rodin, Paris.
World House Galleries, New York (acquired from the above, December 1955).
Acquired from the above by the late owner, December 1962.

Literature

G. Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris, 1947, p. 140, no. 37 (larger version illustrated, pl. 37; titled Saint Jean-Baptiste prêchant).
A.E. Elsen, Rodin, New York, 1963, pp. 27-33 (larger version illustrated in color, pp. 26-29; titled St. John the Baptist Preaching).
R. Descharnes and J.-F. Chabrun, Auguste Rodin, Lausanne, 1967, p. 56 (larger version illustrated; titled Saint John the Baptist Preaching).
I. Jianou and C. Goldscheider, Auguste Rodin, Paris, 1967, p. 86 (larger version illustrated, pl. 9).
J.L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, p. 357, no. 65 (larger version illustrated, pp. 358-359 and 361-362; titled St. John the Baptist Preaching).
C. Goldscheider, Auguste Rodin, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre sculpté, Paris, 1989, vol. I, p. 128, no. 102e (larger version illustrated, pp. 128-129).
A. Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin, Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, Paris, 2007, vol. II, p. 639, no. S. 639 (another cast illustrated; larger version illustrated, pp. 638 and 640; smaller version illustrated, p. 641).

Lot Essay

This work will be included in the forthcoming Auguste Rodin catalogue critique de l'oeuvre sculpté currently being prepared by the Comité Rodin at Galerie Brame et Lorenceau under the direction of Jérôme Le Blay under the archive number 2011-3547B.

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