La Maternité (or, La Jeune Mère à la Grotte)

Artist Auguste Rodin (French, 1840–1917)

Date1885

MediumBronze

DimensionsSculpture: 14 3/4 × 8 15/16 × 9 1/2 inches (37.5 × 22.7 × 24.1 cm);
Mount: 18 5/8 × 14 9/16 × 6 1/16 inches (47.3 × 37 × 15.4 cm);
Including mount: 18 5/8 × 14 9/16 × 9 3/8 inches (47.3 × 37 × 23.8 cm)

ClassificationsSculpture

Credit LineAcquired through the Ernest I. White, Class of 1893, Endowment Fund

Terms

Sculpture
Relief
Female nudes
Grottoes
Mother and child
Reliefs
French

Object number60.080

Label CopyProvenance:

1885– collection of the artist; –1921 collection of Charles Edward Haviland, Paris (acquired through the artist’s studio); 1921–1922 estate of Charles Edward Haviland, Paris; (1922 sold through Hôtel Drouot, Paris, Collection Ch. Haviland: Tableaux Modernes; Aquarelles, Dessins, Pastels; Sculptures par Barye et Rodin auction, 7 December 1922, lot no. 53); 1922– collection of M. Knoedler, Paris (purchased through Hôtel Drouot). (–by 1959 with Me. F. Lair-Dubreuil et Me. Henri Baudoin, Commissaires-Priseurs, Paris); by 1959–1960 collection of Schweitzer Gallery, New York (purchased through Me. F. Lair-Dubreuil et Me. Henri Baudoin) [5]; 1960 collection of Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca (purchased through Schweitzer Gallery)

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