Les Damnées

Description

Rodin derived this couple, whose twisted bodies are locked painfully together, from the naked figures writhing in agony in his monumental sculpture The Gates of Hell.

Provenance

Estate of Edgar A. Hahn

Les Damnées

Auguste Rodin

1885–1895

Accession Number

1972.278

Medium

bronze

Dimensions

Overall: 25.6 x 41.9 x 27 cm (10 1/16 x 16 1/2 x 10 5/8 in.)

Classification

Sculpture

Museum

The Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland, United States

Credit Line

Bequest of Edgar A. Hahn