Niobid

Artist Auguste Rodin (French, 1840-1917)

Place of OriginFrance

Dateabout 1900

Dimensions19 1/2 × 7 × 9 in. (49.5 × 17.8 × 22.9 cm)

Mediummarble

ClassificationSculpture

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1935.51

On View

Toledo Museum of Art (2445 Monroe Street), Gallery, 33

Published ReferencesTancock, John L. The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin: the Collection of the Rodin Museum, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 1976, p. 125, fig. 4-3, p. 127.

Angle, Micaela and Andrea Bruciati, Il mito di Niobe: e dimmi che non vuoi morire, Milan, Silvana, 2018, p. 286 and 421, repr. col. p. 201 (cat. no. LXX).

Exhibition HistoryNew York, Curt Valentin Gallery, Auguste Rodin, 1954, no. 31 (also shown at Minneapolis Institute of Arts; Des Moines Art Center; Portland Art Museum; Santa Barbara Museum of Art; City Art Museum of St. Louis; Cincinnati Art Museum; no. 31, not shown in New York).

Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.