About This Artwork

Auguste Rodin
French, 1840-1917

Lightly Draped Dancing Female Nude, n.d.

Graphite with stumping, on tan card laid down on tan wove paper
306 x 197 mm
"Hommage affectueux à Madame C. Steichen"
Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1949.898

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Washington, D.C., The Phillips Gallery, 1956.

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

Washington, D.C., The National Gallery of Art, "Rodin Drawings: True and False," November 20, 1971-January 23, 1972, cat. 92; traveled to New York, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, March 9-May 14, 1972.

San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, "Rodin: Drypoints, Illustrations, and Related Drawings," June 7-August 10, 1975, cat. 142a; traveled to the Baltimore Museum of Art, October 14-November 23, 1975, and Cambridge Mass., the Fogg Art Museum, December 10, 1975-January 18, 1976.

Paris, Musée d'Orsay, "Alfred Stieglitz and His Circle: Modernity in New York, 1905–1930," October 18, 2004-January 16, 2005, p. 84, cat. 56 (ill.); traveled to Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, February 10-May 17, 2005.

Publication History

Albert Elsen, Rodin (New York, 1963), p. 168 (ill.).

Paras-Perez, "Notes on Rodin's Drawings," Art Quarterly, 30 (Summer, 1965), p. 132 (ill.).

Kirk Varnedoe, "Rodin Drawings: True and False," Artnews, 70 (December 1971), p. 30 (ill.).

Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1979), no. 5E9.

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, 494, and 545 (ill.).

Ownership History

Given by the artist to Mme. Steichen [inscription]; Edward Steichen (1879-1973). 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.