RODIN, Auguste

Paris 1840 - Meudon, Hauts-de-Seine 1917

Maker: Rudier, Eugène

L'Âge d'airain

The Age of Bronze

modeled 1877, cast before 1915 [archives, Musée Rodin, Paris]

bronze, sand cast [archives, Musée Rodin, Paris]

statue

Dimensions (HxWxD): 71 ¹⁄₂ x 21 ¹⁄₄ x 25 ¹⁄₂ in.

Acc. No.: 1940.141

Credit Line: Gift of Alma de Bretteville Spreckels

Photo credit: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

© Artist : public domain

© Artist : public domain

San Francisco, California, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Legion of Honor

legionofhonor.famsf.org

Provenance

• 1915, Commissioned by Auguste Rodin [archives, Musée Rodin, Paris]
• 1915, Cast by Eugène Rudier (1875-1952) who continued using the mark of his father Alexis Rudier (?-1897)
• 1915, Acquired during the exhibition of San Francisco, no. 94 by Alma de Bretteville Spreckels [archives, Musée Rodin, Paris]
• 1924, Loaned to the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco [archives, Musée Rodin, Paris]
• 1940, Gift of Alma de Bretteville Spreckels

Bibliography

• 1981 Butler
  Ruth Butler, "Rodin and the Paris Salon", Rodin Rediscovered, Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1981, pp. 19-50
• 2007 Le Normand-Romain (français)
  Antoinette Le Normand-Romain, avec la collaboration d'Hélène Marraud et Diane Tytgat, introductions par Dr. Ruth Butler et Mr. Régis Cusinberche, Rodin et le bronze. Catalogue des œuvres conservées au musée Rodin, 2 volumes, Paris, Musée Rodin / Editions de la Réunion des musées nationaux, 2007, vol. 1, pp.121-129, L'Âge d'airain, 1875-1877, cet exemplaire est cité p.123 : "Fonte Alexis Rudier : [...] San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, don Mrs Spreckels, 1940 (acq. à l'exp. 1915, San Francisco, n° 94, et mis en dépôt au musée, 1924)"
• 2007 Le Normand-Romain (English)
  Antoinette Le Normand-Romain, with the collaboration of Hélène Marraud and Diane Tytgat, introductions by Dr. Ruth Butler and Mr. Régis Cusinberche, The Bronzes of Rodin. Catalogue of works in the Musée Rodin, 2 volumes, English version, Paris, Musée Rodin / Editions de la Réunion des musées nationaux, 2007, vol. 1, pp.121-129, The Age of Bronze, 1875-1877, this copy is mentioned p.123: "Cast by Alexis Rudier [...] San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, gift of Mrs Spreckels, 1940 (acq. during the exhibition 1915, San Francisco, no. 94, and loaned to the museum 1924)"
• 2017 Blanchetière
  François Blanchetière, L’Enfer selon Rodin, éditions du musée Rodin, édition Norma, Paris, 2017, cat. 1

Exhibitions

• 1915 San Francisco
  
  Panama Pacific International Exposition, Pavillon français, Exposition rétrospective d'art français 1870-1910, grande salle centrale, San Francisco, 1915, n° 94
  
  
  1981-1982 Washington
  
  Rodin Rediscovered, Washington, DC., National Gallery of Art, June 28, 1981-May 2, 1982, organized by Albert E. Elsen, Kirk Varnedoe, and Ruth Butler, cat. no.21, p. 315

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