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Death of Alcestis
Death of Alcestis

Death of Alcestis

Auguste Rodin (French, 1840–1917)
about 1899; bronze cast before 1905
Object PlaceFrance
Medium/TechniqueMetal; bronze
Dimensions36.99 x 23.5 x 17.15 cm (14 9/16 x 9 1/4 x 6 3/4 in.)
Credit LineBequest of Major Henry Lee Higginson
Accession number21.2521
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsSculpture
Collections
ProvenanceBy 1905, Henry Lee Higginson (b. 1834 - d. 1919), Boston [see note]; 1921, bequest of Henry Lee Higginson to the MFA. (Accession Date: November 3, 1921)

NOTE: Lent by Henry Lee Higginson to the "Loan Collection of Paintings by Claude Monet and Eleven Sculptures by Auguste Rodin," Copley Society, Boston, March 1905. First lent to the MFA on June 20, 1907.


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