Reclining Nude

Prints and Drawings

c. 1900

Auguste Rodin
French, 1840-1917

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Auguste Rodin
Title: Reclining Nude
Place: France (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1895–1905
Medium: Graphite, with stumping, on grayish-cream wove paper
Inscriptions: Signed lower right: "A Rodin"
Dimensions: 30.8 × 20.4 cm (12 3/16 × 8 1/16 in.)
Credit Line: Alfred Stieglitz Collection
Reference Number: 1949.899

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.

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.
Williamstown, MA, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Museum, “Rodin in the United States: Confronting the Modern”, June 18 - September 18, 2022, traveled to Atlanta, High Museum of Art, October 21, 2022 - January 15, 2023, pp. 114 (ill.), 244, cat. 40, cat. by Anntoinette Le Normand-Romain and Christina Buley-Uribe, et. al.

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.

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