About This Artwork

Auguste Rodin
French, 1840-1917

Horseman, 1889

Gouache, with pen and brown and black ink and traces of magenta ink (faded), over graphite, on cream wove paper, tipped onto cream wove paper
217 x 174 mm
Inscribed lower left, on mount, in graphite: "1889 / Aug / Rodin"
Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1949.580R

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

New York, Photo-Secession Gallery, "Rodin Drawings," 1910.

Washington D.C., The National Gallery of Art, "Rodin Drawings: True and False," November 20, 1971-January 23, 1972, cat. 1; traveled to The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, March 9-May 14, 1972.

Washington D.C., The National Gallery of Art, "Rodin Rediscovered," July 4-October 4, 1981; traveled to The Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, February 15-May 20, 1982, and the Musée Rodin, Paris, June-August 1982.

Publication History

Camera Work, nos. 34-35 (April-July 1911), p. 25.

Albert Elsen, Rodin (New York, 1967), p. 156

Albert Elsen and J. Kirk T. Varnedoe, The Drawings of Rodin (New York, 1971), cover and no. 1 (ill.).

Marius de Zayas and Francis M. Naumann, “How, When, and Why Modern Art Came to New York, Arts Magazine 54:8 (April 1980), p. 98, fig. 6.

Marius de Zayas, edited by Francis M. Naumann, How, When, and Why Modern Art Came to New York (Cambridge, Mass, 1996), pp. 3 and 245, fig. 8.

Ownership History

Given by the artist to Edward Steichen (1879-1973) [notes in curatorial file]; given to Alfred Stieglitz (1864–1946), New York, December 1910 [notes in curatorial file]; Stieglitz Estate (Georgia O'Keefe (1887–1986), executor); given to the Art Institute, 1949.