Bather with Raised Arms

model c. 1890/1899, cast 1930

Aristide Maillol

Sculptor, French, 1861 - 1944

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    bronze

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    overall: 157.5 × 66.1 × 60.1 cm (62 × 26 × 23 11/16 in.)
    gross weight: 97.977 kg (216 lb.)

  • Accession

    1967.15.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Galerie Dina Vierny, Paris);[1] purchased 8 December 1967 by NGA.
[1] An attestation by Dina Vierny dated 6 December 1967, copy in NGA curatorial files, indicates the sculpture is one of six casts from the 1930 edition.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1967

  • Europa 1900, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Ostende, Belgium, 1967, no. 194, pl. 46.

1969

  • In Memoriam, Ailsa Mellon Bruce, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1969, unnumbered checklist.

Bibliography

1994

  • Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: 139, repro.

Inscriptions

top of base at right, artist's device: AM within a circle; back of base behind figure's proper right leg: . Alexis Rudier . / . Fondeur. Paris .

Markings

FM: Alexis Rudier

Wikidata ID

Q63854543

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