Fallen Caryatid Carrying an Urn

after 1900

Artist: Auguste Rodin (French, 1840 - 1917)
Makers: Eugène Rudier (French, 1875 - 1952), Alexis Rudier (French, 1854 - 1897)
Foundry: Rudier Foundry (1874 - 1952)
Title: Fallen Caryatid Carrying an Urn
Date: after 1900
Place of Creation: France
Object Type: Sculpture
Medium: Bronze with some gilt
Dimensions: 16 x 10 7/8 x 9 5/8 in. (40.6 x 27.6 x 24.4 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Alma de Bretteville Spreckels
Accession Number: 1950.60

Cast by Eugène Rudier (1875–1952), Paris, by 1918; [1]
Sold to Alma de Bretteville Spreckels (1881–1968), San Francisco, in 1949; [2]
Gift to to the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, 1950;
Administrative transfer to the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1972.
[1] Per https://www.frenchsculpture.org/index.php/Detail/objects/25681 citing documents in the Musée Rodin, Paris, the work was commissioned November 23, 1917; delivered March 27, 1918; paid for on May 1, 1918; and sold to “an art connoisseur” April 10, 1918.
[2] Per Caso and Sanders 1977, p. 157, note 8, a list of sculptures acquired from Rudier by Spreckels in October 1949 was formerly in the collection of Jean Scott Frickelton (1898–1977), Palo Alto.
Bulletin of the California Palace of the Legion of Honor 21, nos. 5/6 (September–October 1963), no. 51.
Caso, Jacques de and Patricia B. Sanders, Rodin’s Sculpture, A Critical Study of the Spreckels Collection (San Francisco: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1977), pp. 154–158, no. 23.
Le Normand–Romain, Antoinette, with the collaboration of Hélène Marraud and Diane Tytgat, The Bronzes of Rodin: Catalogue of works in the Musée Rodin, 2 vols. (Paris: Musée Rodin and Editions de la Réunion des musées nationaux, 2007), vol. 1, p. 247.
Chapman, Martin, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin at the Legion of Honor (San Francisco: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 2017), pp. 72–73, pl. 18.

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