Sculpture - Escultura: Auguste Rodin - Part 1 - Data in English y Español - 21 photos - fotos
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Open your mind, your heart to other cultures
Abra su mente, su corazón a otras culturas
You will be a better person
Usted será una mejor persona
RM
Abra su mente, su corazón a otras culturas
You will be a better person
Usted será una mejor persona
RM
Auguste Rodin
Burghers of Calais
London
Los Burgueses de Calais
Londres
Balzac Toward the Light, Midnight, 1908
Edward Steichen (American, born Luxembourg, 1879–1973)
Direct carbon print
14 3/8 x 19 in. (36.5 x 48.3 cm)
Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1933 (33.43.38)
Not on view Last Updated April 19, 2011
Rodin moved his rejected plaster model for the Monument to Balzac to his home in Meudon, where he had had the pavilion from the retrospective exhibition of 1900 reconstructed. In the garden at Meudon, Steichen made this dramatic photograph of the work silhouetted against the night sky. The model was not cast in bronze until after Rodin's death. The bronze in the garden of the Hôtel Biron, now the Musée Rodin, in Paris was cast in 1936, and more of them have since been made.
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Citation
"Edward Steichen: Balzac Toward the Light, Midnight (33.43.38)". In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/33.43.38 (October 2006)
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Vincent, Clare. "Rodin at The Metropolitan Museum of Art: A History of the Collection." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 38, no. 4 (Spring, 1981).
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Naef, Weston J. "The Art of Seeing: Photographs from the Alfred Stieglitz Collection." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 35, no. 4 (Spring, 1978).
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Source: Edward Steichen: Balzac Toward the Light, Midnight (33.43.38) | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Edward Steichen (American, born Luxembourg, 1879–1973)
Direct carbon print
14 3/8 x 19 in. (36.5 x 48.3 cm)
Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1933 (33.43.38)
Not on view Last Updated April 19, 2011
Rodin moved his rejected plaster model for the Monument to Balzac to his home in Meudon, where he had had the pavilion from the retrospective exhibition of 1900 reconstructed. In the garden at Meudon, Steichen made this dramatic photograph of the work silhouetted against the night sky. The model was not cast in bronze until after Rodin's death. The bronze in the garden of the Hôtel Biron, now the Musée Rodin, in Paris was cast in 1936, and more of them have since been made.
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Steichen, Edward (American, born Luxembourg, 1879–1973)
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Carbon Print
Subject Matter/Theme
French Literature
Literature and Literary Connections
Photograph of Sculpture
Artist Biography
Rodin, Auguste (French, 1840–1917)
Steichen, Edward (American, born Luxembourg, 1879–1973)
Citation
"Edward Steichen: Balzac Toward the Light, Midnight (33.43.38)". In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/33.43.38 (October 2006)
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Vincent, Clare. "Rodin at The Metropolitan Museum of Art: A History of the Collection." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 38, no. 4 (Spring, 1981).
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Naef, Weston J. "The Art of Seeing: Photographs from the Alfred Stieglitz Collection." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 35, no. 4 (Spring, 1978).
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Source: Edward Steichen: Balzac Toward the Light, Midnight (33.43.38) | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Bronze Age, also known as The Vanquished, modeled 1876, this bronze cast ca. 1906
Auguste Rodin (French, 1840–1917)
Bronze
H. 72 in. (182.9 cm)
Gift of Mrs. John W. Simpson, 1907 (07.127)
On view: Gallery 800 Last Updated April 19, 2011
The lively modeling of the nude and its deceptively realistic appearance represented such a departure from the conventions of academic sculpture of the time that Rodin was accused of casting from a live model, a practice greatly frowned upon. Rodin preserved photographs of the human model on which the sculpture is based, a man named Auguste Neyt. He is shown nude, his clenched right hand on his head and his left hand grasping a pole. It is immediately evident that the sculpture was not cast from the body of the man.
Critics of the period were also dismayed by the subject, for Rodin not only abandoned all of the elaborate repertory of symbols with which academic sculptors habitually equipped their works, but also had stripped the figure of the spear originally carried in his left hand, relying on the expressiveness of the figure itself to convey its meaning. In addition, he changed the title from The Vanquished (Le Vaincu), possibly an allusion to the suffering and demoralization of his countrymen during the Franco-Prussian War, to the classical, but more ambiguous, The Age of Bronze (L'Âge d'Airain). Later the work acquired still other new titles. The Metropolitan Museum has retained the title by which the bronze was known at the time of its purchase from Rodin.
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Rodin, Auguste (French, 1840–1917)
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Bronze
Citation
"Auguste Rodin: The Bronze Age, also known as The Vanquished (07.127)". In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/07.127 (October 2006)
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Vincent, Clare. "Rodin at The Metropolitan Museum of Art: A History of the Collection." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 38, no. 4 (Spring, 1981).
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Source: Auguste Rodin: The Bronze Age, also known as The Vanquished (07.127) | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Auguste Rodin (French, 1840–1917)
Bronze
H. 72 in. (182.9 cm)
Gift of Mrs. John W. Simpson, 1907 (07.127)
On view: Gallery 800 Last Updated April 19, 2011
The lively modeling of the nude and its deceptively realistic appearance represented such a departure from the conventions of academic sculpture of the time that Rodin was accused of casting from a live model, a practice greatly frowned upon. Rodin preserved photographs of the human model on which the sculpture is based, a man named Auguste Neyt. He is shown nude, his clenched right hand on his head and his left hand grasping a pole. It is immediately evident that the sculpture was not cast from the body of the man.
Critics of the period were also dismayed by the subject, for Rodin not only abandoned all of the elaborate repertory of symbols with which academic sculptors habitually equipped their works, but also had stripped the figure of the spear originally carried in his left hand, relying on the expressiveness of the figure itself to convey its meaning. In addition, he changed the title from The Vanquished (Le Vaincu), possibly an allusion to the suffering and demoralization of his countrymen during the Franco-Prussian War, to the classical, but more ambiguous, The Age of Bronze (L'Âge d'Airain). Later the work acquired still other new titles. The Metropolitan Museum has retained the title by which the bronze was known at the time of its purchase from Rodin.
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Subject Matter/Theme
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Rodin, Auguste (French, 1840–1917)
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Bronze
Citation
"Auguste Rodin: The Bronze Age, also known as The Vanquished (07.127)". In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/07.127 (October 2006)
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Source: Auguste Rodin: The Bronze Age, also known as The Vanquished (07.127) | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Eternal Spring, also known as Eternal Springtime, probably modeled 1881, this marble executed 1906–7
Auguste Rodin (French, 1840–1917)
Marble
H. 28 in. (71.1 cm)
Bequest of Isaac D. Fletcher, 1917 (17.120.184)
On view: Gallery 800 Last Updated April 19, 2011
The torso of the woman in this group is recognizable as that of a model named Adèle Abruzzezzi. Rodin used it repeatedly, and it appears, for example, in a very different context in The Gates of Hell. Eternal Spring is in a lighter vein, however, full of awakening sensuality and implying neither guilt nor punishment to come. The sculpture was extremely popular, and Rodin repeated it often both in marble and in bronze. In 1898, he sold his plaster foundry models with the reproduction rights for this sculpture and its spiritual twin, The Kiss, to the firm of Ferdinand Barbedienne, the commercial foundry. This marble, commissioned from Rodin in 1906 and finished in March 1907, displays the sensuous, veiled quality of carving that creates an impressionistic play of light and shade on the surface of the medium characteristic of the marbles of Rodin's later career.
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"Auguste Rodin: Eternal Spring, also known as Eternal Springtime (17.120.184)". In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/17.120.184 (October 2006)
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Source: Auguste Rodin: Eternal Spring, also known as Eternal Springtime (17.120.184) | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Auguste Rodin (French, 1840–1917)
Marble
H. 28 in. (71.1 cm)
Bequest of Isaac D. Fletcher, 1917 (17.120.184)
On view: Gallery 800 Last Updated April 19, 2011
The torso of the woman in this group is recognizable as that of a model named Adèle Abruzzezzi. Rodin used it repeatedly, and it appears, for example, in a very different context in The Gates of Hell. Eternal Spring is in a lighter vein, however, full of awakening sensuality and implying neither guilt nor punishment to come. The sculpture was extremely popular, and Rodin repeated it often both in marble and in bronze. In 1898, he sold his plaster foundry models with the reproduction rights for this sculpture and its spiritual twin, The Kiss, to the firm of Ferdinand Barbedienne, the commercial foundry. This marble, commissioned from Rodin in 1906 and finished in March 1907, displays the sensuous, veiled quality of carving that creates an impressionistic play of light and shade on the surface of the medium characteristic of the marbles of Rodin's later career.
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Marble
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Subject Matter/Theme
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Rodin, Auguste (French, 1840–1917)
Technical Glossary
Marble
Citation
"Auguste Rodin: Eternal Spring, also known as Eternal Springtime (17.120.184)". In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/17.120.184 (October 2006)
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Source: Auguste Rodin: Eternal Spring, also known as Eternal Springtime (17.120.184) | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Final Study of the Monument to Balzac, modeled 1897, this bronze cast 1972
Auguste Rodin (French, 1840–1917)
Bronze
H. 41 3/4 in. (106 cm)
Gift of Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Foundation, 1984 (1984.364.15)
On view: Gallery 800 Last Updated April 19, 2011
This study differs little from the finished Monument to Balzac except that it is less than half the size. It was preceded by studies of the dressing gown alone, a simulation of one that Balzac preferred to wear when writing. A study of the full figure wrapped in the dressing gown followed. The final study, simplified and more a symbol than a portrait, attempted to convey a strength of character analogous to the power of Balzac's prose. It has been said that in the attempt, Rodin created the first truly modern sculpture.
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Citation
"Auguste Rodin: Final Study of the Monument to Balzac (1984.364.15)". In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/1984.364.15 (October 2006)
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Source: Auguste Rodin: Final Study of the Monument to Balzac (1984.364.15) | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Auguste Rodin (French, 1840–1917)
Bronze
H. 41 3/4 in. (106 cm)
Gift of Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Foundation, 1984 (1984.364.15)
On view: Gallery 800 Last Updated April 19, 2011
This study differs little from the finished Monument to Balzac except that it is less than half the size. It was preceded by studies of the dressing gown alone, a simulation of one that Balzac preferred to wear when writing. A study of the full figure wrapped in the dressing gown followed. The final study, simplified and more a symbol than a portrait, attempted to convey a strength of character analogous to the power of Balzac's prose. It has been said that in the attempt, Rodin created the first truly modern sculpture.
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French Literature
Literature and Literary Connections
Portrait Sculpture
Portrait Sculpture from Europe
Portrait Sculpture from France
Artist Biography
Rodin, Auguste (French, 1840–1917)
Technical Glossary
Bronze
Citation
"Auguste Rodin: Final Study of the Monument to Balzac (1984.364.15)". In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/1984.364.15 (October 2006)
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Source: Auguste Rodin: Final Study of the Monument to Balzac (1984.364.15) | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Final Study of the Monument to Balzac, modeled 1897, this bronze cast 1972
Auguste Rodin (French, 1840–1917)
Bronze
H. 41 3/4 in. (106 cm)
Gift of Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Foundation, 1984 (1984.364.15)
On view: Gallery 800 Last Updated April 19, 2011
This study differs little from the finished Monument to Balzac except that it is less than half the size. It was preceded by studies of the dressing gown alone, a simulation of one that Balzac preferred to wear when writing. A study of the full figure wrapped in the dressing gown followed. The final study, simplified and more a symbol than a portrait, attempted to convey a strength of character analogous to the power of Balzac's prose. It has been said that in the attempt, Rodin created the first truly modern sculpture.
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Material and Technique
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Subject Matter/Theme
French Literature
Literature and Literary Connections
Portrait Sculpture
Portrait Sculpture from Europe
Portrait Sculpture from France
Artist Biography
Rodin, Auguste (French, 1840–1917)
Technical Glossary
Bronze
Citation
"Auguste Rodin: Final Study of the Monument to Balzac (1984.364.15)". In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/1984.364.15 (October 2006)
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Source: Auguste Rodin: Final Study of the Monument to Balzac (1984.364.15) | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Auguste Rodin (French, 1840–1917)
Bronze
H. 41 3/4 in. (106 cm)
Gift of Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Foundation, 1984 (1984.364.15)
On view: Gallery 800 Last Updated April 19, 2011
This study differs little from the finished Monument to Balzac except that it is less than half the size. It was preceded by studies of the dressing gown alone, a simulation of one that Balzac preferred to wear when writing. A study of the full figure wrapped in the dressing gown followed. The final study, simplified and more a symbol than a portrait, attempted to convey a strength of character analogous to the power of Balzac's prose. It has been said that in the attempt, Rodin created the first truly modern sculpture.
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Citation
"Auguste Rodin: Final Study of the Monument to Balzac (1984.364.15)". In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/1984.364.15 (October 2006)
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Source: Auguste Rodin: Final Study of the Monument to Balzac (1984.364.15) | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Hand of God, modeled ca. 1896, this marble executed ca. 1907
Auguste Rodin (French, 1840–1917)
Marble
H. 29 in. (73.7 cm)
Gift of Edward D. Adams, 1908 (08.210)
On view: Gallery 800 Last Updated April 19, 2011
Toward the end of his career, Rodin began to use giant hands in a series of original and idiosyncratic arrangements, with titles such as The Hand of God, The Hand of the Devil (1903), The Cathedral (1908), and The Secret (ca. 1910). The first of these represents divine creation expressed in terms of the sculptor's art: the rough stone is both primeval matter and the sculptor's medium; the smooth, white emerging forms held by the hand are the bodies of the first man and woman, while the great, life-giving hand itself is a symbol of the original Creator, and, perhaps quite literally, of the sculptor as well. The Hand of God was another of Rodin's works that has had wide appeal, and there are numerous versions of it, both in marble and in bronze. This marble was commissioned from Rodin in 1906 by one of the Metropolitan Museum's trustees.
Source: Auguste Rodin: The Hand of God (08.210) | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Auguste Rodin (French, 1840–1917)
Marble
H. 29 in. (73.7 cm)
Gift of Edward D. Adams, 1908 (08.210)
On view: Gallery 800 Last Updated April 19, 2011
Toward the end of his career, Rodin began to use giant hands in a series of original and idiosyncratic arrangements, with titles such as The Hand of God, The Hand of the Devil (1903), The Cathedral (1908), and The Secret (ca. 1910). The first of these represents divine creation expressed in terms of the sculptor's art: the rough stone is both primeval matter and the sculptor's medium; the smooth, white emerging forms held by the hand are the bodies of the first man and woman, while the great, life-giving hand itself is a symbol of the original Creator, and, perhaps quite literally, of the sculptor as well. The Hand of God was another of Rodin's works that has had wide appeal, and there are numerous versions of it, both in marble and in bronze. This marble was commissioned from Rodin in 1906 by one of the Metropolitan Museum's trustees.
Source: Auguste Rodin: The Hand of God (08.210) | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
François-Auguste-René Rodin (12 November 1840 – 17 November 1917), known as Auguste Rodin (English pronunciation: /oʊˈɡuːst roʊˈdæn/ oh-goost roh-dan, French pronunciation: [ogyst ʁɔdɛ̃]), was a French sculptor. Although Rodin is generally considered the progenitor of modern sculpture,[1] he did not set out to rebel against the past. He was schooled traditionally, took a craftsman-like approach to his work, and desired academic recognition,[2] although he was never accepted into Paris's foremost school of art.
Sculpturally, Rodin possessed a unique ability to model a complex, turbulent, deeply pocketed surface in clay. Many of his most notable sculptures were roundly criticized during his lifetime. They clashed with the predominant figure sculpture tradition, in which works were decorative, formulaic, or highly thematic. Rodin's most original work departed from traditional themes of mythology and allegory, modeled the human body with realism, and celebrated individual character and physicality. Rodin was sensitive of the controversy surrounding his work, but refused to change his style. Successive works brought increasing favor from the government and the artistic community.
From the unexpected realism of his first major figure—inspired by his 1875 trip to Italy—to the unconventional memorials whose commissions he later sought, Rodin's reputation grew, such that he became the preeminent French sculptor of his time. By 1900, he was a world-renowned artist. Wealthy private clients sought Rodin's work after his World's Fair exhibit, and he kept company with a variety of high-profile intellectuals and artists. He married his life-long companion, Rose Beuret, in the last year of both their lives. His sculpture suffered a decline in popularity after his death in 1917, but within a few decades his legacy solidified. Rodin remains one of the few sculptors widely known outside the visual arts community.
Madame X, ca. 1907
Auguste Rodin (French, 1840–1917)
Marble
H. 19 1/2 in. (49.5 cm)
Gift of Thomas F. Ryan, 1910 (11.173.6)
On view: Gallery 800 Last Updated April 19, 2011
The subject of this portrait, Anna-Elizabeth de Noailles (1876–1933), belonged to the literary group known as the Nouvelle Pléiade. A contemporaneous photograph shows her to have been an elegant lady, with limpid eyes, high-piled hair, and a prominent nose. One sees that by suppressing the nose, Rodin could have made her look like the fashionable portraits of the time. But Madame X was an aristocrat as well as a poet and intellectual, the daughter of a Romanian princess and granddaughter of a diplomat and man of letters who had translated Dante into classical Greek. Her husband was Count Mathieu de Noailles, scion of a French family who traced its noble lineage to the eleventh century. In the thrust of the nose, tilt of the head, and veiling of the eyes, Rodin has made of her portrait a symbol as well as a likeness. The countess evidently saw only the nose, for the checklist of the Museum's purchases from Rodin in 1910 records her refusal of the marble and Rodin's preferred title: Madame X; "otherwise," he wrote, "she is a very intelligent person."
Source: Auguste Rodin: Madame X (11.173.6) | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Auguste Rodin (French, 1840–1917)
Marble
H. 19 1/2 in. (49.5 cm)
Gift of Thomas F. Ryan, 1910 (11.173.6)
On view: Gallery 800 Last Updated April 19, 2011
The subject of this portrait, Anna-Elizabeth de Noailles (1876–1933), belonged to the literary group known as the Nouvelle Pléiade. A contemporaneous photograph shows her to have been an elegant lady, with limpid eyes, high-piled hair, and a prominent nose. One sees that by suppressing the nose, Rodin could have made her look like the fashionable portraits of the time. But Madame X was an aristocrat as well as a poet and intellectual, the daughter of a Romanian princess and granddaughter of a diplomat and man of letters who had translated Dante into classical Greek. Her husband was Count Mathieu de Noailles, scion of a French family who traced its noble lineage to the eleventh century. In the thrust of the nose, tilt of the head, and veiling of the eyes, Rodin has made of her portrait a symbol as well as a likeness. The countess evidently saw only the nose, for the checklist of the Museum's purchases from Rodin in 1910 records her refusal of the marble and Rodin's preferred title: Madame X; "otherwise," he wrote, "she is a very intelligent person."
Source: Auguste Rodin: Madame X (11.173.6) | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Nero, ca. 1900–1905
Auguste Rodin (French, 1840–1917)
Graphite with wash of watercolor and gouache on cream paper
12 3/4 x 10 in. (32.4 x 3 7/8 cm)
John Stewart Kennedy Fund, 1910 (10.66.5)
Not on view Last Updated April 19, 2011
Nero, or, as it is titled in French on the lower right side of the drawing, Néron, is one of Rodin's rapid sketches that show the results of later reworking. It has been discovered that this figure was originally that of a woman. The bold outline of the final version has been drawn in pencil over washes of watercolor and gouache.
Source: Auguste Rodin: Nero (10.66.5) | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Auguste Rodin (French, 1840–1917)
Graphite with wash of watercolor and gouache on cream paper
12 3/4 x 10 in. (32.4 x 3 7/8 cm)
John Stewart Kennedy Fund, 1910 (10.66.5)
Not on view Last Updated April 19, 2011
Nero, or, as it is titled in French on the lower right side of the drawing, Néron, is one of Rodin's rapid sketches that show the results of later reworking. It has been discovered that this figure was originally that of a woman. The bold outline of the final version has been drawn in pencil over washes of watercolor and gouache.
Source: Auguste Rodin: Nero (10.66.5) | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
A plaster of The Age of Bronze
François-Auguste-René Rodin (París, 12 de noviembre de 1840 - Meudon, 17 de noviembre de 1917) fue un escultor francés contemporáneo a la corriente Impresionista. Enmarcado en el academicismo más absoluto de la escuela escultórica neoclásica, es el escultor encargado no sólo de poner fin a más de dos siglos en busca de la mimesis en las artes tridimensionales, sino de dar además un nuevo rumbo a la ya obsoleta concepción del monumento y la escultura pública. Es por esto que Rodin ha sido denominado en la historia del arte: «el primer moderno».
A portrait of Rodin by his friend Alphonse Legros
Auguste Rodin
Auguste Rodin
Grubleren - The Thinker - El Pensador
Auguste Rodin by Edward Steichen 1902
Auguste Rodin by Féliz Nadar 1893
Camille Claudel (1864–1943)
Auguste Rodin
Grubleren - The Thinker - El Pensador
Rodin in 1914
Rodin observing work on the monument to Victor Hugo at the studio of his assistant Henri Lebossé in 1896
Sculpture - Escultura: Auguste Rodin - Part 1 - Data in English y Español - 21 photos - fotos
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