Rodin began titling his drawings when he exhibited them at the 1900 Exposition Universelle. As with his sculptures, the titles remained flexible. Sometimes he appended more than one title to the same composition, enjoying the possibility of multiple meanings coexisting within a work. Other iterations of this drawing appear with inscriptions such as Psyché and Chanson de geste (epic poem).
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Title:The Abandoned
Artist:Auguste Rodin (French, Paris 1840–1917 Meudon)
Date:ca. 1902
Medium:Graphite with stumping
Dimensions:7 9/16 x 11 7/8 in. (19.4 x 30.4 cm)
Classification:Drawings
Credit Line:Rogers Fund, 1910
Object Number:10.45.20
Signature: Lower right, in graphite: Aug. Rodin
Vendor: Turner (British), through Roger Eliot Fry
New York. Museum of Modern Art. "Modern Drawings," February 16, 1944–May 10, 1944.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Drawings and Prints: Selections from the Permanent Collection," July 27–October 25, 2004.
Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University. "Rodin and America: Influence and Adaptation 1876 - 1936," October 4, 2011–January 1, 2012.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Rodin at The Met," September 16, 2017–February 4, 2018.
Williamstown, Mass. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. "Rodin in the United States: Confronting the Modern," June 18, 2022–September 18, 2022.
Modern Drawings. Monroe Wheeler, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1944, p. 30, ill.
Victoria Thorson Rodin Graphics: A Catalogue Raisonné of Drypoints and Book Illustrations. San Francisco, 1975, cat. no. 137a, pp. 122-123, ill.
Clare Vincent "Rodin at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, A History of the Collection." in The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, vol. 38, no. 4, Spring 1981, fig. no. 20.
Catherine Lampert, Hayward Gallery, David Macey Rodin: sculpture & drawings. London, November 1, 1986–January 25, 1987, cat. no. 213, fig. no. 293, pp. 171, 234.
Patricia G. Berman Modern Hieroglyphs: Gestural Drawing and the European Vanguard 1900-1918 Exh. Cat. Davis Museum and Cultural Center. Wellesley, 1995, cat. no. 34, pp. 34-35, 116, ill.
Roberta K. Tarbell Rodin and America: Influence and Adaptation, 1876-1936. Exh. cat., Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University, Stanford, October 4, 2011-January 1, 2012. Bernard Barryte, Milan, 2011, pp. 171-173, 360, ill. p. 171, fig. 115.
Antoinette Le Normand-Romain Rodin. Abbeville Press, New York and London, 2014, fig. no. 16, pp. 24–25, ill.
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