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The Temptation of St. Anthony

ca. 1890

Artist: Auguste Rodin (French, 1840 - 1917)
Title: The Temptation of St. Anthony
Date: ca. 1890
Place of Creation: France
Object Type: Sculpture
Medium: Plaster
Dimensions: 24 3/8 x 38 1/2 x 29 1/2 in. (61.9 x 97.8 x 74.9 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Alma de Bretteville Spreckels
Accession Number: 1962.27

Sold to Alma de Bretteville Spreckels (1881–1968), San Francisco, in 1919; [1]
Gift to the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, 1962; [2]
Administrative transfer to the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1972.
[1] See Caso and Sanders 1977, p. 91, note 6, citing a letter from Loie Fuller to Mrs. McGuire, May 9, 1919, in the Loie Fuller Collection, Dance Collection, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations.
[2] On loan to the California Palace of the Legion of Honor from 1924.
Bulletin of the California Palace of the Legion of Honor 21, nos. 5/6 (September–October 1963), no. 58.
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. 88–91, no. 10.
Chapman, Martin, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin at the Legion of Honor (San Francisco: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 2017), pp. 136–137, pl. 46.

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