About This Artwork

Auguste Rodin
French, 1840-1917

Standing Female Nude, Bending Forward, n.d.

Graphite, with stumping, on tan wove paper, laid down on buff wove paper
311 x 206 mm
Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1949.896

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

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

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

London, Arts Council of Great Britain, "Rodin: Sculpture and Drawings," 1986, cat. 220.

Paris, Musée d'Orsay, "Alfred Stieglitz and His Circle: Modernity in New York, 1905–1930," October 18, 2004-January 16, 2005, p. 105, cat. 56 (ill.); traveled to Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, February 10-May 17, 2005.

Publication History

Camera Work, 34-35 (April-July 1911), p. 61.

Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1979), no. 5E6.

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), pp. 77 and 494.

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.