DrawingsFrench19th century

Saint John the Baptist

1880

Artists

Auguste RodinArtist

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Black ink with touches of graphite on light tan wove paper

Culture

French

Century

19th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

32.8 x 23.9 cm (12 15/16 x 9 7/16 in.)

Provenance

Baron Joseph Vitta, Paris; his sale, Galerie Charpentier, Paris, March 15, 1935, no. 12; acquired at that sale through Jacques Seligmann and Co., New York, by Grenville L. Winthrop (Fr 25,000); his bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1943.

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