- Artist
ロダン、オーギュスト
RODIN, Auguste
- Title
- 私は美しいI am Beautiful
- Year
- 1885年頃（原型）c. 1885 (model)
- Medium
- ブロンズbronze
- Dimensions/duration
- 70 x 32 x 33
- Inscriptions/marks
- 台座正面に署名: Rodin; 台座正面に書込み（ボードレール『悪の華』より「美」）: “Je suis belle, o Mortels, Comme un rêve de pierre / Et mon sein, où Chacun s est meurtri tour a tour, / Est fait pour inspirer a poete un Amour / Etincelant muet ainsi que la matiere. [sic]”; 台座右側面に鋳造銘: ALEXIS. RUDIER. / FONDEUR. PARIS.Signed front of base: Rodin; inscribed front of base (‘La beauté’ from Les Fleurs du Mal of Charles Baudelaire): “Je suis belle, o Mortels, Comme un rêve de pierre / Et mon sein, où Chacun s est meurtri tour a tour, / Est fait pour inspirer au poete un Amour / Etincelant muet ainsi que la matiere. [sic]”; foundry mark right side of base: ALEXIS. RUDIER. / FONDEUR. PARIS.
- Collection
- 国立西洋美術館The National Museum of Western Art
- Accession number
- S.1959-0028
- Provenance
- Bought from Musée Rodin by Kojiro Matsukata, Kobe through Léonce Bénédite, ca. August 1919, as ‘Je suis belle; groupe’ (Fr. 12,000) [see several letters between Bénédite and Suzuki & Co., August 1919, in Archives of Musée Rodin, Paris; copy in NMWA curatorial files]; sequestered by French government, 1944; vested in French government under San Francisco Peace Treaty, 1952; transferred from French to Japanese government, 23 January 1959; entered into NMWA, April 1959.
- Data created by The National Museum of Western Art. Provided September 17, 2020.
- 2024-12-10
- 2024-12-10