Eve
Artist: Auguste Rodin (French, 1840-1917)
Date: original about 1881 (this cast 1910)
Dimensions:
H: 67 3/4 in. (172.1 cm)
Medium: Bronze
Classification: Sculpture
Credit Line: Purchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number: 1952.92
Label Text:Like The Thinker (see Gallery 33), this figure of the biblical first woman was originally planned as part of Auguste Rodin’s monumental, unfinished set of bronze doors, The Gates of Hell. Eve and a corresponding figure of Adam were to flank the doors as the perpetrators of Original Sin.
With deliberate echoes of Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel ceiling, Rodin’s Eve communicates her shame at disobeying God through her pose. Trying to hide her body and face, she seems to turn in on herself. The rough, expressive surface and boldly modeled form clearly retain the evidence of the freely-worked plaster model, adding to the emotional and psychological intensity of the figure.
With deliberate echoes of Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel ceiling, Rodin’s Eve communicates her shame at disobeying God through her pose. Trying to hide her body and face, she seems to turn in on herself. The rough, expressive surface and boldly modeled form clearly retain the evidence of the freely-worked plaster model, adding to the emotional and psychological intensity of the figure.
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