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l'Innocence tourmentée par l'Amour by Auguste Rodin

Auguste Rodin

l'Innocence tourmentée par l'Amour, 1871

Bronze with silvered and gilt patina
Sculpture
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Last recorded sale at Bonhams, London (19 Oct 2023)
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ImageSale dateAuction houseLocationSale nameLot No.EstimatePrice SoldConditionTitle
Oct 19, 2023
BonhamsLondonImpressionist & Modern Art51
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l'Innocence tourmentée par l'Amour
Dec 5, 2012
Sotheby'sLondonEuropean Sculpture and Works of Art: Medieval to Modern160
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L'innocence Tourmentée Par L'amour (Innocence Tormented By Cupid) by Albert Carrier-Belleuse
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Artwork Description
Category

sculpture

Materials

bronze with silvered and gilt patina

Signature

signed, inscribed and dated "Bruxelles 1871. Carrier-Belleuse" (on the base) and stamped with the foundry mark "Cie Anonyme des Bronzes Bruxelles" (on the rim of the base)

Provenance

Private collection, Belgium.

Anon. sale, Sotheby"s, London, 5 December 2012, lot 160.

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Exhibited

Brussels, Musée Bruxellois de l"industrie et du travail, Fabrique d"art, Le bronze à l"oeuvre , 17 October 2003 - 10 April 2004.

London, Nevill Keating Tollemache, Auguste Rodin, Sculpture, Drawings & Photographs , 6 - 30 June 2005.

Literature

S. Pierron, "François Rude & Auguste Rodin, À Bruxelles", in La grande revue , 1 October 1902, p. 154.

S. Pierron, "François Rude & Auguste Rodin, À Bruxelles", in Études d"art , Brussels, 1903, p. 30.

S. Lami, Dictionnaire des sculpteurs de l"École française au XIXe siècle , Paris, 1914, p. 283.

J.E. Hargrove, The Life and Work of Albert Carrier-Belleuse , New York, 1977, p. 243.

J. Van Lennep, "Acquisitions. Un nouveau Rodin?", in La Lettre aux Amis des musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique , Brussels, July - September 1996.

Exh. cat., Vers "l"Age d"Airain", Rodin en Belgique , Paris, 1997, no. 5 (another cast illustrated p. 109).

A. Le Normand-Romain, Rodin , Paris, 1997, p. 21.

Exh. cat., Rodin, Les arts décoratifs , Evian, 2009, no. 6, p. 14 (the terracotta version illustrated pp. 15, 22 & 23).

C. Buley-Uribe & A. Kurlander, Auguste Rodin, Intimate Works, Sculpture, Drawings and Watercolors, Photographs and Letters , exh. cat., New York, 2011 (the biscuit de Sèvres version illustrated).

Exh. cat., Carrier-Belleuse, Le Maître de Rodin , Paris, 2014, no. 76 (the terracotta version illustrated).

Description

AUGUSTE RODIN (1840-1917) & ALBERT-ERNEST CARRIER-BELLEUSE (1824-1887)

L"Innocence tourmentée par l"Amour

signed, inscribed and dated "Bruxelles 1871. Carrier-Belleuse" (on the base) and stamped with the foundry mark "Cie Anonyme des Bronzes Bruxelles" (on the rim of the base)

bronze with silvered and gilt patina

65cm (25 9/16 in). high

Conceived in 1871, this bronze version cast by the Compagnie des Bronzes de Bruxelles by 1910.