''Young Mother'' is a bronze sculpture by

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 uniqu ...

with a brown and green patina, conceived in 1885 and cast by the Rudier Foundry.

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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. .

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