AUGUSTE RODIN (1840-1917) AND ALBERT ERNEST CARRIER-BELLEUSE (1824-1887)


L'Innocence tourmentée par l'Amour inscribed 'Carrier-Belleuse' (on the base)biscuit de Sèvres22 1/2 in (57.2 cm) (height)Conceived in 1871 and executed before 1910
|This work will be included in the forthcoming Auguste Rodin catalogue critique de l'oeuvre sculpté currently being prepared by the Comité Auguste Rodin at Galerie Brame et Lorenceau under the direction of Jérôme Le Blay under the archive number 2005-1165B.ProvenancePrivate collection, Brussels (acquired circa 1930).Private dealer, Paris (acquired from the family of the above).Private collection, Pennsylvania (acquired from the above in 2005).ExhibitionParis, Galerie Brame & Lorenceau, Rodin, Sculptures, Dessins et photographies, January 26 – February 25, 2006, no. 3 (illustrated in color in the catalogue p. 55).New York, Jill Newhouse Gallery, Auguste Rodin, Intimate Works, March 2011, no. 3 (illustrated in color in the catalogue n.p.).LiteratureS. Pierron, 'François Rudier et Auguste Rodin à Bruxelles' in La Grande Revue, October 1, 1902, p. 154.Vers l'age d'airain: Rodin en Belgique (exhibition catalogue), Musée Rodin, Paris, March 18 - June 15, 1997, no. 5 (illustration of the bronze version pp. 109-10). From 1870 to 1877, the young Auguste Rodin worked in Brussels under the tutelage of an array of celebrated sculptors, first as a practicien, stone carver, and then as a collaborator. Until 1872 Rodin's principal employer was Albert Ernest Carrier-Belleuse, the renowned decorative sculptor whose work cites those of the 18th century Rococo master Clodion. Rodin conceived of L'innocence tourmentée par l'amour, and, per his agreement with his teacher, Carrier-Belleuse signed the younger artist's works that were made at his studio. Rodin revisited this theme of cupids encouraging the sexual flourishing of a young woman in his later works, such as in Toilette de Vénus. Compagnie des Bronzes de Bruxelles produced editions of L'innocence tourmentée par l'amour for Carrier-Belleuse in terracotta, marble, biscuit de Sèvres and bronze until 1910.