After AUGUSTE RODIN (French 1840-1917) Mignon Bronze, posthumous cast Including one inch marble base: 27 x 21 1/2 x 11 3/4 inches / 68.58 x 54.61 x 29.81 cm Bears signature and date on the front right edge: A. Rodin 1867; stamped verso along the base of the bronze: © A.S.B and numbered verso in the right shoulder 88/100 Notes: "Mignon" is the first of Rodinís portraits of Rose Beuret, a seamstress he met in 1864 who became his studio helper, the mother of his son Auguste-EugËne, and his lifelong companion. They married only in 1917, the year they both died, she of pneumonia, and he several months later from complications of a stroke._x000B_The title of this lively and informal portrait may refer to an 1866 opÈra comique of the same name by Ambroise Thomas, based on a character in Goetheís 1796 novel Wilhelm Meisterís Apprenticeship.