Auguste Rodin and Georges Rudier Foundry
Balzac
1891-1892
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Physical Qualities
Bronze, 50 1/2 in. (128.3 cm.)
Credit Line
Alan and Janet Wurtzburger Collection
Object Number
1966.55.26
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1966; Alan and Janet Wurtzburger, Pikesville, Maryland, cast on the authority of the Musée Rodin, Paris, for $3,000.00, 1957.
Matisse, Picasso, and the School of Paris
Rodin: Expression & Influence
American Wing Rotations 2021
Sculpture Gardens Rotations 2021
Sculpture Gardens Rotations 2022
Sculpture Gardens Rotations 2023
"The Wurtzburger Collection," BMA News, vol. XXIII, No. 3, Spring 1960, pp. 5-6, cat. no. 18, ill. p. 5.
Athen Tacha Spear, "Rodin Sculpture in the Cleveland Museum of Art," Cleveland Museum of Art, 1967, pp. 21-24, 26, 92 (for other casts of "Balzac").
Willian C. Seitz, "Quality in Sculpture," "Annual III," The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1968, no. 7, ill. p. 60.
"ArtNews," December 1995, p. 112.
Inscribed: Right side top of base (in script): A. Rodin; along lower edge of base: (c) Musee Rodin 1957; lower edge of base: Georges Rudier / Fondeur Paris
On View at the BMA
