Alma de Bretteville Spreckels (1881–1968), San Francisco, by 1924; [1] [2]

Gift to the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, 1941;

Administrative transfer to the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1972.

[1] Purchase date unknown. See Caso and Sanders 1977, p. 53, note 15, which states that Spreckels acquired this work through Loie Fuller, citing a note signed “A. S.” on a letter from Isabel Scott to Spreckels dated January 10, 1928.

[2] On loan to the California Palace of the Legion of Honor from 1924. See San Francisco 1924, no. 165. 

San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, 1924–1925. “Inaugural Exposition of French Art in the California Palace of the Legion of Honor,” no. 165.

San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, October 18–December 8, 1963. “Auguste Rodin,” no. 30.

Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, July 4, 1981–May 2, 1982. “Rodin Rediscovered,” no. 132.

London, Hayward Gallery, November 1, 1986–January 25, 1987. “Rodin: Sculptures and Drawings,” no. 114.

Danville, CA, The Behring–Hofmann Educational Institute, Inc., and its University of California Museums at Blackhawk, November 6, 1992–February 3, 1993; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, March 6–May 30, 1993; Stockton, The Haggin Museum, October 10, 1993–January 16, 1994; Palm Springs Desert Museum, February 10–April 10, 1994. “Auguste Rodin 1840 – 1917: Selections from the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco,”  no. 16. 

Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum, May 21–August 26, 1996. “Auguste Rodin: Eros und Leidenschaft,” no. 54.

Stanford, Cantor Arts Center, October 4, 2011–January 1, 2012. “Rodin and America: Influence and Adaptation, 1876–1936,” no. 28.

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (Legion of Honor), October 14, 2017–January 28, 2018. “Klimt and Rodin: An Artistic Encounter,” no. 36.

Inaugural Exposition of French Art in the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Lincoln Park, San Francisco, California, 1924–1925, exh. cat. (San Francisco: California Palace of the Legion of Honor, 1924), p. 41, no. 165. 

Bulletin of the California Palace of the Legion of Honor 21, nos. 5/6 (September – October 1963), no. 30. 

Lampert, Catherine, Rodin: Sculptures and Drawings, exh. cat. (London: Hayward Gallery, 1986), p. 214, pl. 198, no. 114. 

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. 49–54, no. 2. 

Elsen, Albert E., Rodin’s Thinker and the Dilemmas of Modern Public Sculpture (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1985), fig. 38. 

Miller, Lee Hunt, Auguste Rodin 1840 – 1917: Selections from the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, exh. cat. (San Francisco: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1992), p. 19, repr. fig. 10, no. 16. 

Seipel, Wilfried, Auguste Rodin: Eros und Leidenschaft, exh. cat. (Vienna: Kunsthistorisches Museum, 1996), pp. 146–147, no. 54, entry by Michael Kausch.    

Barryte, Bernard, and Roberta K. Tarbell, Rodin and America: Influence and Adaptation, 1876 – 1936, exh. cat. (Stanford: Cantor Arts Center, 2011), pp. 44–45, no. 28. 

Chapman, Martin, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin at the Legion of Honor (San Francisco: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 2017), p. 33, pp. 46–47, pl. 9.  

Natter, Tobias G. and Max Hollein, eds., Klimt and Rodin: An Artistic Encounter, exh. cat. (San Francisco: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 2017), pp. 156–157, no. 36.