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The Siren of the Sea

ca. 1906

Auguste Rodin

Artist: Auguste Rodin (French, 1840 - 1917)
Title: The Siren of the Sea
Date: ca. 1906
Place of Creation: Paris
Object Type: Sculpture
Medium: Marble and plaster
Dimensions: 10 3/16 x 11 1/2 x 18 5/16 in. (25.9 x 29.2 x 46.5 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Alma de Bretteville Spreckels
Accession Number: 1941.34.16

Alma de Bretteville Spreckels (1881–1968), San Francisco, 1915; [1]
Gift to the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, 1940; [2]
Administrative transfer to the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1972.
[1] Acquired during the 1915 Panama Pacific International Exhibition.
[2] On loan to the California Palace of the Legion of Honor from 1924. See San Francisco 1924, no. 176.
San Francisco, French Pavilion, February 20–December 4, 1915. “Panama–Pacific International Exhibition,” no. 96.
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. 176.
San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, October 18–December 8, 1963. “Auguste Rodin,” no. 31.
Exposition Universelle et Internationale de San Francisco. 1915, Panama Pacific International Exposition: Catalogue Officiel de la Section Française (Paris: Devambez, 1915), p. 209, no. 96.
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. 176.
Bulletin of the California Palace of the Legion of Honor 21, nos. 5/6 (September–October 1963), no. 31.
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. 114–116, no. 17.
Chapman, Martin, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin at the Legion of Honor (San Francisco: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 2017), pp. 50–51, pl. 11.

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