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Young Mother
''Young Mother'' is a bronze sculpture by Auguste Rodin with a brown and green patina, conceived in 1885 and cast by the Rudier Foundry. Casts A first edition cast is now in the Museo Soumaya. Other versions of the work survive in marble in the National Gallery of Scotland and in plaster in the Academy of the Legion of Honour in San Francisco. It shows a young woman sitting on a rock and resting a child on her knee. It was shown on the lower half of ''The Gates of Hell'' and may have been a forerunner of ''Young Mother in the Grotto''. Museo Soumaya (2015). ''Catálogo del Museo Soumaya. Tomo I.'' México: Fundación Carlos Slim. p. 141. . See also *List of sculptures by Auguste Rodin References External links * {{sculpture-stub Sculptures by Auguste Rodin 1885 sculptures Sculptures in the Museo Soumaya Sculptures in the Musée Rodin Marble sculptures Bronze sculptures Plaster sculptures ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Auguste Rodin
François Auguste René Rodin (12 November 184017 November 1917) was a French sculptor, generally considered the founder of modern sculpture. He was schooled traditionally and took a craftsman-like approach to his work. Rodin possessed a unique ability to model a complex, turbulent, and deeply pocketed surface in clay. He is known for such sculptures as ''The Thinker'', ''Monument to Balzac'', '' The Kiss'', ''The Burghers of Calais'', and ''The Gates of Hell''. Many of Rodin's most notable sculptures were criticized, as they clashed with predominant figurative sculpture traditions in which works were decorative, formulaic, or highly thematic. Rodin's most original work departed from traditional themes of mythology and allegory. He modeled the human body with naturalism, and his sculptures celebrate individual character and physicality. Although Rodin was sensitive to the controversy surrounding his work, he refused to change his style, and his continued output brought increas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
