Sculpture Collection

Aristide Maillol

Young Woman Kneeling

French, 1861-1944
Young Woman Kneeling
c. 1900
bronze
1960.6

7 x 3 x 4 inches

In about 1900, after working in various media, Maillol turned to sculpture exclusively. He made a number of small terracotta figures and sold them to the dealer Amboise Vollard, who had them cast at either Bingen or Goddard foundries. These proved to be such a success that Vollard had some of them recast, although he discontinued the practice in 1937 at Maillol’s request. This particular figure may have been a preliminary model for the large bronze Kneeling Girl, a cast which is at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C.

 - From the catalogue, The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. David Lloyd Kreeger, Editor Margy P. Sharpe, 1976.