Fallen Caryatid

Auguste Rodin (French, 1840–1917)

about 1883

Object PlaceFrance

Country of Origin, for CustomsFrance

Medium/TechniqueStone; marble

Dimensions50 x 30.48 x 26.67 cm (19 11/16 x 12 x 10 1/2 in.)

Credit LineGift of the Estate of Samuel Isham through Julia Isham (Mrs. Henry Osborn Taylor)

Accession number17.3134

On View

Not on view

ClassificationsSculpture

Collections

Europe

ProvenancePossibly sold by the artist to Jules Bastien-Lepage (b. 1848 - d. 1884), Paris [see note 1]; possibly sold from the estate of Bastien-Lepage to Samuel Isham (b. 1855 - d. 1914), Paris and New York [see note 2]; Paris and New York; 1917, gift of the Estate of Samuel Isham through his sister and executrix, Julia Isham (Mrs. Henry Osborn Taylor), to the MFA. (Accession date: October 4, 1917)

NOTES:
[1] This sculpture may be identical to a marble copy of the figure of "Sorrow," which Bastien-Lepage acquired from Rodin and kept in his studio. See T. H. Bartlett, "Auguste Rodin," American Architect and Building News, vol. xxv, no. 696 (April 27, 1889), p. 199 and ibid., vol. xxv, no. 700 (May 25, 1889), p. 249. [2] According to notes in the MFA curatorial file.