Aime Jules Dalou

modeled 1883, cast 1889

Auguste Rodin, Artist Pierre Bingen, Foundry

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About the Artwork

Title Aime Jules Dalou

Artwork Date modeled 1883, cast 1889

Makers Auguste Rodin (Artist) French, 1840-1917 Pierre Bingen (Foundry)

Medium Bronze

Dimensions Overall: 18 1/2 × 16 15/16 × 9 1/16 inches, 29.8 pounds (47 × 43 × 23 cm, 13.5 kg)

Classification Sculpture

Department European Modern Art to 1970

Credit Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Walter B. Ford II

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 60.1

Markings

Signed Inscribed, reverse of proper left shoulder: A. Rodin P. Bingen Fond[eur?]

Marks Marked, foundry mark, inscribed in cast, back of left shoulder: P.Bingen foundeur

Provenance

Johanny Peytel (Paris, France).
(M.R. Schweitzer Gallery, New York, New York, USA);
acquired by Mr. and Mrs. Walter B. Ford II (Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan, USA);
1960-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Bulletin of the DIA 41, no. 3 (1962): pp. 46-47, (cover ill).

Fortieth Anniversary Exhibition. Exh. cat., Scweitzer Gallery. New York, November 1970, no. 41 (ill.).

"Family Art Game." Detroit Free Press (April 18, 1982): p. 18 (ill.) [DIA Advertising Supplement].

The Institute Collects. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, December 8, 1963 - January 3, 1965, p. 15.

The Romantics to Rodin. Exh. cat., Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Minneapolis Insitute of Arts, DIA. March 4, 1980-April 29, 1981, pp. 337-338.

Le Normand-Romain, Antoinette. The Bronzes of Rodin. Paris, 2007, vol. 1, pp. 284-285.

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Credit Line for Reproduction

Auguste Rodin; Pierre Bingen, Aime Jules Dalou, modeled 1883, cast 1889, bronze. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Walter B. Ford II, 60.1.