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Fugit Amor

before 1887

Auguste Rodin, Alexis Rudier, Eugène Rudier

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Artist: Auguste Rodin (French, 1840 - 1917)
Makers: Eugène Rudier (French, 1875 - 1952), Alexis Rudier (French, 1854 - 1897)
Foundry: Rudier Foundry (1874 - 1952)
Title: Fugit Amor
Date: before 1887
Place of Creation: France
Object Type: Sculpture
Medium: Bronze
Dimensions: 14 1/2 x 7 5/8 x 17 1/2 in. (36.8 x 19.4 x 44.5 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Alma de Bretteville Spreckels
Accession Number: 1942.41

Cast by Eugène Rudier (1875–1952), Paris, 1930; [1]
Alma de Bretteville Spreckels (1881–1968), San Francisco, by 1933; [2]
Gift to to the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, 1942;
Administrative transfer to the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1972.
[1] Per https://www.frenchsculpture.org/index.php/Detail/objects/25683, the archives of the Musée Rodin, Paris, have documents indicating the work was commissioned on May 27, delivered June 19, invoiced June 23, and paid on July 4 (all in 1930).
[2] Per Caso and Sanders 1977, pgs. 106, it was lent to the museum from this date.
New York, Museum of Modern Art, May 1–September 8, 1963. “Rodin,” no. 35.
San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, October 18–December 8, 1963. “Auguste Rodin,” no. 40.
Eugene, University of Oregon Museum of Art, February 2–March 14, 1965. “Dante in Art,” no. 6.
Louisville, Kentucky, Speed Art Museum, October 16–November 28, 1965. “The Figure in Sculpture, 1865–1965,” no. 3.
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, July 4, 1981–May 2, 1982. “Rodin Rediscovered,” no. 274.
Elsen, Albert E., ed., Rodin, exh. cat. (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1963), p. 61, no. 35.
Bulletin of the California Palace of the Legion of Honor 21, nos. 5/6 (September–October 1963), no. 40.
Baldinger, Walter S., Claudia Christiansen, and John J. Baratte, eds., Dante in Art, exh. cat. (Eugene, Oregon: University of Oregon, 1965), p. 52, no. 6.
The Figure in Sculpture, 1865–1965, exh. cat. (Louisville, Kentucky: Speed Art Museum, 1965), no. 3.
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. 164–166, no. 25.
Elsen, Albert E., Rodin Rediscovered, exh. cat. (Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1981), p. 334, no. 274.
Chapman, Martin, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin at the Legion of Honor (San Francisco: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 2017), pp. 66–68, pl. 15.

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