Sculpture Bather Auguste Rodin

Reproduction in resin with a bronze patina by hand. Mold made from an impression of the original work exhibited at the Musée d'Orsay.

Rodin was an adorer of women, and because he was an adorer of nature he made women his main subject of observation.

For "La Porte de l'Enfer" commissioned in 1880, he...

Reproduction in resin with a bronze patina by hand. Mold made from an impression of the original work exhibited at the Musée d'Orsay.

Rodin was an adorer of women, and because he was an adorer of nature he made women his main subject of observation.

For "La Porte de l'Enfer" commissioned in 1880, he multiplied the studies after the models that he left free to come and go in the studio: it was directly in the earth, and in front of the living nature that inspired him, that he found the forms. He never starts with predetermined subjects, but chooses with the young women who pose for him the attitudes likely to give the bodies a maximum power of expression.

He does not bother with heads, feet or hands. And if, during the first part of his career, he had to produce sensual figures which often offered an echo of the art of the XVIIIth century and were intended for the clientele of amateurs who supported him, after 1895 or so he gradually removed everything that seemed anecdotal or useless.