About This Artwork

Auguste Rodin
French, 1840-1917

Reclining Nude, n.d.

Graphite, with stumping, on grayish-cream wove paper
308 x 204 mm
Signed lower right: "A Rodin"
Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1949.899

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. 94; traveled to New York, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, March 9-May 14, 1972.

Paris, Musée d'Orsay, "Alfred Stieglitz and His Circle: Modernity in New York, 1905–1930," October 18, 2004-January 16, 2005, p. 84, cat. 31 (ill.); traveled to Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, February 10-May 17, 2005.

Publication History

Kirk J. Varnedoe, "Rodin Drawings: True and False," Artnews, 70 (December 1971), pp. 31-32, 65-66 (ill.).

Albert Elsen and Kirk J. Varnedoe, The Drawings of Rodin (New York, 1971), no. 94.

Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1979), no. 5E10.

Ownership History

Given by the artist to Charles H. Caffin [inscription]; given to Alfred Stieglitz (1864–1946), New York, May 1909 [inscription]; Stieglitz Estate (Georgia O'Keefe (1887–1986), executor); given to the Art Institute, 1949.