Mignon

19th–20th century

Not on view

May Belle Greenebaum (1884–1966) and Herbert Fleishhacker (1872–1957), San Francisco, by March 1917; [1]
Gift to the M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, 1965;
Administrative transfer to the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1972.
[1] Per “New Additions to Art Treasures of San Francisco,” San Francisco Chronicle, March 7, 1917, announcing “A notable addition to the art treasures in San Francisco was made yesterday when Mrs. Herbert Fleishhacker received from the Custom–house several cases of original masterpieces by Auguste Rodin” and reproducing this work, erroneously titled “Moliere” [sic].
“New Additions to Art Treasures of San Francisco,” San Francisco Chronicle, March 7, 1917, p. 11, repr.
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. 263–268, no. 54.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. 2, p. 518.

Currently on view