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Bourgeois de Calais, monument : Jean d'Aire, tête colossale
Burghers of Calais, Monument: Jean d'Aire, Colossal Head [Museum's Title: Monumental Head of Jean d'Aire, or Colossal Head of Jean d'Aire]
modeled c. 1885, enlarged 1908-1909, cast 1973
bronze 4/12, sand cast [archives, Musée Rodin, Paris]
head
Dimensions (HxWxD): 26-3⁄4 x 19 7⁄8 x 22 1⁄2 in.
signed on base below left ear: A. Rodin
inscribed on base, lower edge, at right, near back: Georges Rudier / Fondeur.Paris
left of signature: No. 4
on base, lower edge, below and to right of signature: © by Musée Rodin 1973
Acc. No.: 1992.165
Credit Line: Gift of the B. Gerald Cantor Collection, 1992.16
Photo credit: Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University
© Artist : public domain
© Artist : public domainProvenance
- 1973, March 4, Commissioned by the Musée Rodin, Paris [D7 RE9 archives, Musée Rodin, Paris]
- 1973, July 24, Invoice date [D9 RE15 archives, Musée Rodin, Paris]
- 1973, July 27, Delivery date [1E11.2, archives, Musée Rodin, Paris]
- 1973, July 30, Payment date [D9 RE15 archives, Musée Rodin, Paris]
- 1974, December 6, Acquired by a Private Collector for the Fine Arts Gallery [D52, ACHD109, D9 RE15 archives, Musée Rodin, Paris]
- 1974, December 7, Private Collection [archives, Musée Rodin, Paris]
- 1992, Gift of the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Foundation
Bibliography
- Museum's website, May 11, 2015
- 2003 Elsen and Jamison
Albert E. Elsen, with Rosalyn Frankel Jamison, Rodin's Art. The Rodin Collection of the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, Edited by Bernard Barryte, with photographs by Frank Wing, [Stanford and New York], The Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University in association with Oxford University Press, 2003, pp. 115-117, n° 21 - 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. 217-222, Bourgeois de Calais, monument : Jean d'Aire, tête colossale, 1885, cet exemplaire est cité p. 222 : "douze exemplaires, n°0 à 8/8, fonte Georges Rudier entre 1971 et 1982 : [...] n°4, 1973, Stanford University, Cantor Arts Center, don B. Gerald Cantor, 1992" - 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. 217-222, Burghers of Calais, Monument: Jean d'Aire, Colossal Head, 1885, this copy is mentioned p.222: "Twelve casts, no.0 to 8/8, by Georges Rudier between 1971 and 1982 : [...] no.4, 1973, Stanford University, Cantor Arts Center, gift of B. Gerald Cantor, 1992"