AUGUSTE RODIN (1840-1917) Severed Head of Saint John the Baptist, small model on oval disk, model created circa [1887]. Sculpture. Proof in bronze with shaded black patina. Post mortem edition, possibly before 1926. Signed A. RODIN and marked Alexis RUDIER Fondeur Paris on the circumference of the oval disk, marked A. RODIN in relief inside. Height: 19cm - Length: 13.5cm - Depth: 10cm Provenance: Private collection, Paris: Private collection, Paris. Public collections: Musée Rodin, Paris - A bronze proof of Tête coupée de Saint Jean-Baptiste, petit modèle sur disque ovale by Auguste Rodin, made by the foundry Alexis Rudier before 1926, is held in the collections of this institution under inventory number S.00632. Bibliography: - Léonce Bénédite - Rodin - Éditions Rieder, Paris, 1926. Our sculpture model described under number 66bis. - Georges Grapppe - Catalogue du musée Rodin, Catalogue de 1931, essai de classement chronologique des œuvres d'Auguste Rodin - Édition du Musée Rodin, Paris 1931. Our sculpture model described under number 208. - Antoinette Le Normand-Romain - Rodin et le bronze; catalog des œuvres conservées au musée Rodin, tome 1 - Éditions de la Réunion des Musées Nationaux, Paris, 1987. The sculpture model Tête coupée de Saint Jean-Baptiste, small model on oval disk described on page 647.