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L'Eternel printemps
Details
Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
L'Eternel printemps
signed 'Rodin' (on the back of the base); inscribed with the foundry mark 'F.BARBEDIENNE' (on the left side of the base); inscribed '613i' (on the inside)
bronze with dark brown patina
Height: 9 5/8 in. (24.5 cm.)
Conceived in 1884 and in this reduced size in 1898; this bronze version cast circa 1905
L'Eternel printemps
signed 'Rodin' (on the back of the base); inscribed with the foundry mark 'F.BARBEDIENNE' (on the left side of the base); inscribed '613i' (on the inside)
bronze with dark brown patina
Height: 9 5/8 in. (24.5 cm.)
Conceived in 1884 and in this reduced size in 1898; this bronze version cast circa 1905
Provenance
Felix Alfermann, Berlin, by whom acquired circa 1905, and thence by descent to the present owner.
Literature
L. Maillard, Etudes sur quelques artistes originaux. Auguste Rodin statuaire, Paris, 1899, pp. 121-22.
G. Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris, 1927, no. 69 (another cast illustrated p. 42).
I. Jianou & C. Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris, 1967, p. 96.
R. Descharnes & J.F. Chabrun, Auguste Rodin, Lausanne, 1967, p. 96 (another cast illustrated pls. 56-57).
J.L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, no. 32b (another cast illustrated pp. 241-247).
A.E. Elsen, Rodin Rediscovered, Washington, 1981, p. 68 (large clay version illustrated fig. 313).
A. Le Normand-Romain (ed.), The Bronzes of Rodin, Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, vol. I, Paris, 2007, p. 334 (another cast illustrated).
G. Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris, 1927, no. 69 (another cast illustrated p. 42).
I. Jianou & C. Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris, 1967, p. 96.
R. Descharnes & J.F. Chabrun, Auguste Rodin, Lausanne, 1967, p. 96 (another cast illustrated pls. 56-57).
J.L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, no. 32b (another cast illustrated pp. 241-247).
A.E. Elsen, Rodin Rediscovered, Washington, 1981, p. 68 (large clay version illustrated fig. 313).
A. Le Normand-Romain (ed.), The Bronzes of Rodin, Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, vol. I, Paris, 2007, p. 334 (another cast illustrated).
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