The Martyr (sculpture)
Sculpture by Auguste Rodin
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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 | |
|---|---|
| La Martyre (French) | |
at Museo Soumaya | |
| 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 |
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Gates of Hell
The 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
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]
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