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Auguste Rodin and Alexis Rudier, Paris

Little Man with Broken Nose

1881

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Little Man with Broken Nose

1881

Physical Qualities Bronze, 4 7/8 in. (12.4 cm.)
Credit Line The Cone Collection, formed by Dr. Claribel Cone and Miss Etta Cone of Baltimore, Maryland
Object Number 1950.447
The Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest, 1949; Etta Cone, Baltimore, by purchse from Paul Vallotton Gallery, Lausanne, 1927
The Persistent Figure in Modern Sculpture

Cone Collection of Modern Paintings and Sculpture
Etta Cone, "The Cone Collection of Baltimore, Maryland" (Baltimore: 1934) pl. 114.
'Cone Bequest,' "BMA News," Oct. 1949, cat. no. 136, p. 27.
"Handbook of the Cone Collection," (Baltimore: BMA, 1955) 47, no. 170.
'Object of the Week,' "The Sun" (magazine section), 3/17/57
"Handbook of the Cone Collection, Revised Edition," (Baltimore: BMA, 1967) no. 159.
Jeanne L. Wasserman, editor, "Metamorphoses in Nineteenth-Century Sculpture," (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1975) 167.
Albert E. Elsen, editor, "Rodin Rediscovered," exh. cat., (Washington D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1981) 38.
Brenda Richardson, "Dr. Claribel & Miss Etta," (Baltimore: BMA, 1985) 176.

Inscribed: On neck, at right: "A. Rodin"

Markings: Stamped: "Alexis Rudier / Fondeur Paris"

Artist

Auguste Rodin

1839–1916

French, 1840-1917
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Foundry

Alexis Rudier, Paris

2000–2000

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