RODIN, Auguste

Paris 1840 - Meudon, Hauts-de-Seine 1917

Maker: Rudier, Alexis

Bourgeois de Calais, monument : Andrieu d'Andres, réduction

Burghers of Calais, Monument: Andrieu d'Andres, Reduction [Museum's Title: The Weeping Burgher (Andrieu d'Andres)]

modeled 1888, reduced 1900, cast c. 1908–1909

bronze

statuette

Dimensions (HxWxD): 17 x 8 ¹⁄₂ x 8 in.

signed on outside of base and underneath base: A. Rodin

Acc. No.: 40.12.6

Credit Line: Gift of Miss G. Louise Robinson, 1940

Photo credit: www.metmuseum.org, August 18, 2011n

© Artist : public domain

© Artist : public domain

New York, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

www.metmuseum.org

Provenance

• Mrs. Simpson
• 1940, Gift of Miss G. Louise Robinson

Bibliography

• 1967 Jianou et Goldscheider
  Ionel Jianou and Cécile Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris, 1967, p. 99 (mentions Metropolitan Museum bronze as one of 12 casts, gives location of five other casts)
• 1940 Preston
  Remington Preston, "A gift of XIX century art", Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, vol. XXXV, 1940 (March), p. 58-59
• 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.222-224,Bourgeois de Calais, monument : Andrieu d'Andres, réduction, 1888, cet exemplaire est cité p. 223 : "Fonte Alexis Rudier : [...] New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, don Louise Robinson, 1940 (donné à sa mère par sa soeur, Mrs Simpson)"
• 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.222-224, Burghers of Calais, Monument: Andrieu d'Andres, Reduction, 1888, this copy is mentioned p. 223: "Cast by Alexis Rudier: [...] New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, gift of Louise Robinson, 1940 (given to her mother by her sister, Mrs Simpson)"

Exhibitions

• 1976 Bellingham
  5000 Years of Art, Bellingham, WA, Whatcom Museum of Art and History, ed. Thomas Schlotterback, 1976, p. 98 no. 72

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