Auguste Rodin

cast after medal of 1887

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 556

The medalist has taken a proof of his 1887 composition, pointed it for enlargement and translation into stone, and added pencil directives for altering it slightly (a deeper turned-up collar, a longer beard) and for squaring it (vertical marks on the sides). It thus served as the working model for the marble relief (1982.19).

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Provenance

Title: Auguste Rodin
Artist: Victor Peter (French, Paris 1840–1918 Paris)
Date: cast after medal of 1887
Culture: French
Medium: Plaster, poinsted with graphite and bearing pencil notations
Dimensions: Diameter: 5 13/16 in. (14.8 cm)
Classification: Medals and Plaquettes
Credit Line: Bequest of Gwynne M. Andrews, by exchange, 1992
Object Number: 1992.116
Curatorial Department: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

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