細節
Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Balzac, étude type A
signed and numbered 'A. Rodin No 12' (on the top of the base); inscribed with foundry mark, inscribed and dated 'Georges Rudier Fondeur. Paris. c by musée Rodin. 1962.' (on the back of the base); with raised signature 'A. Rodin' (on the underside)
bronze with dark brown and green patina
Height: 16 1/8 in. (41 cm.)
Conceived circa 1894; this bronze version cast in 1962
來源
Musée Rodin, Paris.
Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris (acquired from the above, January 1963).
Madame Loeb-Vaïto, Paris.
Albert Loeb Gallery, New York (acquired from the above, November 1964).
Acquired from the above by the late owner, December 1968.
出版
A. Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin, Catalogue of Works in the Museé Rodin, Paris, 2007, vol. I, p. 174, no. S. 585 (another cast illustrated; titled Balzac, étude de nu dite étude A).