Eve after the Fall

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Eve after the Fall

Auguste Rodin (French, 1840–1917)LinkedCulture matchlcp-5fadac0041a2

Date
Modeled 1883, carved c. 1886
Medium
Marble
Culture
France
Department
Painting and Sculpture of Europe
Institution
Art Institute of Chicago
Object ID
16963

Auguste Rodin’s sculpture Eve owes its genesis to The Gates of Hell , the artist’s major commission from the French government in 1880. The associations posed by the sculptural portals of that project led Rodin back to the art of Lorenzo Ghiberti and Michelangelo, particularly their depiction of biblical stories from the book of Genesis. A number of elements from the Gates —such as The Thinker , Adam , and Eve —gradually evolved into independent works. In particular, Eve recalls the most sculptural of Renaissance paintings: Michelangelo’s panels from the Sistine Chapel Ceiling and Masaccio’s Expulsion from the Garden of Eden . Its naturalism shocked critics when it was first exhibited, since Eve seemed to them more like a flesh-and-blood woman than an idealized creation.

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Credit line
Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection
Provenance
The artist to Paul Paulin, Paris, about 1886 [letter from Andrė Schoeller to Knoedler and Co., July 19, 1922; copy in curatorial object file]; Andre Schoeller, Paris, until 1922; sold Knoedler and Co., New York to Martin A. Ryerson (d. 1932), Chicago, 1922 [letter from Knoedler and Co. to Martin A. Ryerson, June 2, 1922; copy in curatorial object file]; bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1933.

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