Woman With Crab (Femme Au Crabe)

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Object Details

Artist
Auguste Rodin, French, b. Paris, 1840–1917
Date
(c. 1886)
Medium
Bronze
Dimensions
8 1/4 x 7 x 6 3/4 in. (21.0 x 17.8 x 17.2 cm)
Collection Object Type
Sculpture
Credit Line
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966
Accession Number
66.4332

Galerie Beyeler, Basel, to 30 July 1959 (sold as "Sitting Nude")
Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York, 30 July 1959-17 May 1966
Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966
GALERIE BEYELER, Basel. "Maitres de l'art moderne," Summer 1955, no. 46.
SOLOMON R. GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM, New York. "Modern Sculpture from the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Collection," 3 October 1962-6 January 1963, no. 398.
MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, New York. "Rodin," 29 April-10 September 1963, no. 53. TOUR: CALIFORNIA PALACE OF THE LEGION OF HONOR, San Francisco, 19 October-8 December.
DULIN GALLERY OF ART, Knoxville, Tennessee. "Strokes of Genius," 30 March-28 April 1985, no. 28, p. 20, ill.

JIANOU, IONEL, and CECILE GOLDSCHEIDER. Rodin (Paris: Arted, 1969), p. 100 (as "Little Crouching Bather").
AMBROSINI, LYNNE, and MICHELLE FACOS. Rodin: The Cantor Gift to the Brooklyn Museum (Brooklyn Museum, 1987), p. 147, ill. (not in exhibition).

Museum
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
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