About This Artwork

Auguste Rodin
French, 1840-1917

Kneeling Girl, en Face (Drawing No.6), n.d.

Watercolor, with graphite, on buff wove paper, laid down on buff wove paper
326 x 249 mm
Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1949.895

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

New York, Photo-Secession Gallery, January 2-21, 1908.

Rochester, N.Y., Eastman House, "Photo-Secession," 1961.

London, Arts Council of Great Britain, "Rodin: Sculpture and Drawings," 1986, cat. 180.

Publication History

Albert Elsen, Rodin (New York, 1967), p. 169.

Homer, "Stieglitz and 291," Art in America, 61 (July-August, 1973), p. 57.

Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1979), no. 5E8.

Anne McCauley, "Auguste Rodin, 1908 and 1910: The Eternal Feminine," in Modern Art in America: Alfred Stieglitz and His New York Galleries (Washington, D.C., 2001), p. 77 and 494.

The Mark Twain House & Museum, A.L. Coburn's Men of Mark: Pioneers of Modernism, exh. cat. (Hartford, Conn., 2004).

Ownership History

Alfred Stieglitz (1864–1946), New York, around 1908 or 1910 [according to McCauley 2001]; Stieglitz Estate (Georgia O'Keefe (1887–1986), executor); given to the Art Institute, 1949.