Collection

Young Girl with Flowers in her Hair (Jeune fille aux fleurs dans les cheveux)

Auguste Rodin

Brooklyn Museum photograph

Object Label

Rodin modeled this decorative bust while working in the studio of the Neo-Rococo sculptor Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse in the 1860s. It is one of several similar works from this era that demonstrate his attempt to capitalize on this eighteenth-century revival style, which flourished during the Second Empire (the reign of Napoleon III, 1852–70).

Caption

Auguste Rodin (French, 1840–1917). Young Girl with Flowers in her Hair (Jeune fille aux fleurs dans les cheveux), 1865–1870, cast 1979. Bronze, 19 x 13 3/4 x 9 1/2 in. (48.3 x 34.9 x 24.1 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Foundation, 84.210.6. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)

Gallery

Not on view

Title

Young Girl with Flowers in her Hair (Jeune fille aux fleurs dans les cheveux)

Date

1865–1870, cast 1979

Geography

Place made: France

Medium

Bronze

Classification

Sculpture

Dimensions

19 x 13 3/4 x 9 1/2 in. (48.3 x 34.9 x 24.1 cm)

Signatures

Under proper right shoulder: "A. Rodin"

Inscriptions

Proper right: "No 8"

Markings

Back, lower edge: "Fonderie de Coubertin" Copyright mark--Back, lower edge: "© by Musée Rodin 1979"

Credit Line

Gift of the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Foundation

Accession Number

84.210.6

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Artists and makers

Auguste Rodin

75 works in the collection

Fonderie de Coubertin

1 work in the collection