Auguste RODIN French, 1840-1917
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Certificate from the Comité Auguste Rodin, issued under no. 2013-4275B and dated January 19, 2026.
The small version of Eve was hugely successful during Rodin’s lifetime, and although it is not yet possible to determine the number of casts made of this model, the experts estimate that at least 40 copies with a square base and flat feet were cast by the were cast by the François Rudier foundries from 1886 onwards, Griffoul & Lorge, Léon Perzinka, Alexis Rudier, and then Georges Rudier at the request of Rodin and then the Rodin Museum until 1967.
We also know from the production records of the Alexis Rudier foundry that Thibert, the engraver, and Alliot, the assembler, worked 40 hours on the engraving and 8 hours on the assembly, respectively. The patina was executed by master foundryman Pourrez.
Provenance
Paris, Musée Rodin, inv. 365
Private collection, acquired from the museum on the 6th of October 1945
Private collection, by descent from the above, Troyes
Literature
C. Mauclair, Auguste Rodin, The Man, His Ideas, His Works, London, 1909, p. 12 (another cast illustrated).
G. Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris, 1944, no. 59, p. 28 (another cast illustrated).
P.L Grigau, 'Rodin's Eve', in Bulletin of the Detroit Institute, 1953-1954, pp. 14-16 (another cast illustrated).
A.E. Elsen, Rodin, New York, 1963, pp. 39, 49, 151, 192 & 208 (another cast illustrated).
B. Champigneulle, Rodin, London, 1967, p. 71 (another cast illustrated pl. 23).
R. Descharnes & J.F. Chabrun, Auguste Rodin, Paris, 1967, p. 160.
L. Goldscheider, Rodin Sculptures, London, 1970, no. 22 (another cast illustrated).
J.L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, no. 8, pp. 148-157 (another cast illustrated fig. 8-5, p. 154).
I Ross & A. Snow, eds., Rodin, A Magnificent Obsession, London, 2001, p. 121 (another cast illustrated pl. 111).
R. Masson & V. Mattiussi, Rodin, Paris, 2004, p. 38 (another cast illustrated p. 39).
A. Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin: Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, vol. I, Paris, 2007, pp. 338-348 (other versions illustrated).