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Les Premieres Funerailles

Auguste Rodin (French, 1840–1917)
French
19th century
1899–1900
Object Place: Europe, France

Medium/Technique Metal; bronze
Dimensions 60.96 x 50.8 x 39.37 cm (24 x 20 x 15 1/2 in.)
Credit Line Edwin L. Jack Fund
Accession Number59.52
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope
ClassificationsSculpture

DescriptionAlso: Le Purgatoire, or La Tombe d'une Ame dans Les Limbes. Three kneeling figures on irregular mound, two supporting inert upper one. Signed A. Rodin on larger surface of mound. Edition of only three.
ProvenanceBaudouin Collection, Paris [see note 1]. Gallerie Les Tourettes, Switzerland; 1959, sold by the Galleries Les Tourettes to the MFA for $7500. (Accession date: February 12, 1959)

NOTES:
[1] According to a February 12, 1959 letter by Hanns Swarzenski to Perry Rathbone.