SculptureFrench19th century
Eternal Idol
1893
Artists
Auguste RodinArtist
Jean EscoulaArtist
Dimensions
72.4 x 63.5 x 40 cm (28 1/2 x 25 x 15 3/4 in.)
Provenance
Commissioned from the artist by Eugène Carrière, 1900 [through Leopold Blondin], by descent; to Carrière family, sold; to Sir Edmund Davis, 1907 [via Jean Delvolvé, Carrière's son-in-law], sold; to Grenville L. Winthrop, New York, NY, 1939 [via Martin Birnbaum], bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943.
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