The Martyr or The Little Martyr is a c.1885 plaster sculpture of a naked dead or sleeping female figure by Auguste Rodin, now in the Musee Rodin.[1]
The Martyr | |
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French: La Martyre | |
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Artist | Auguste Rodin |
Year | 1885 |
Type | Sculpture |
Medium | Bronze |
Dimensions | 27.6 cm × 148 cm × 98.5 cm (7.0 in × 37.6 in × 25 in) |
Location | Museo Soumaya, Mexico City |
Gates of Hell
editThe sculpture is a study for a figure in the top left of Rodin's major work The Gates of Hell, though he later removed the corresponding figure from Gates.[2][3] It was originally exhibited at the Exposition Universelle, representing the Bronze Age, and is now in the Musée Rodin in Paris.[4]
Versions
edit![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/218_La-peque%C3%B1a-m%C3%A1rtir-1.jpg/220px-218_La-peque%C3%B1a-m%C3%A1rtir-1.jpg)
There is an enlarged blackened bronze cast of the work now in The Metropolitan Museum of Art.[5] He later removed the figure's head to produce Flying Figure (c.1890) - a cast of this is now also in the Metropolitan.[6]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "Figure volante de la Porte de l'enfer ou Petite Martyre".
- ^ Rodin The Martyr
- ^ The Martyr
- ^ (in Spanish) La puerta del infierno (Primera Edición edición). México: Fundación Carlos Slim A.C. 2016. p. 255. ISBN 978-607-7805-18-2
- ^ Metropolitan Museum of Art - The Martyr
- ^ "Flying Figure".
External links
editMedia related to The Martyr by Auguste Rodin at Wikimedia Commons
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