Crouching woman by Auguste Rodin (SOTAG : 1422)3D ModelNoAI
Auguste Rodin is considered one of the most important sculptors of the late 19th century. In 1880, while still relatively unknown, Rodin received a prestigious commission for the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris.
As a starting point for his composition, Gates of Hell, a monumental 6-metre-high bronze door, Rodin used Dante’s poem The Divine Comedy (about 1308–20), especially the dire warning over Hell’s entrance: ‘Abandon every hope, ye who enter here’.
Although never built, Rodin decided to extract and reproduce several figures from his composition for the door, which was crowded with over 180 agonised and writhing bodies and sub-human poses.This included ‘Femme accroupie (Crouching Woman)’, a reduced-scale version of the life-sized figure made around 1881–82, of which several other versions in bronze are known. The artist modelled the original figure in terra cotta and later cast it by a professional bronze foundry.
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