Auguste Rodin
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).
Artwork Details
- 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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