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The Earth and Moon

RODIN, Auguste

© Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
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This group derives ultimately from Rodin's 'Gates of Hell'. Together with an earlier marble version, ordered in 1898 and delivered in 1900, it derives from an original plaster in the Musée Rodin in Paris. The small scale of the figures relative to the roughly worked block suggests the emancipation of the spirit from brute matter. The title implies a contrast between the mundane and the ethereal. This work was purchased by Gwendoline Davies in 1914.


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Collection

Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales

Item Number

NMW A 2509

Creation/Production

RODIN, Auguste
Date: 1898-1900

Acquisition

Gift, 30/9/1940
Given by Gwendoline Davies

Measurements

Height (cm): 120
Width (cm): 68.5
diam (cm): 63.5
Height (in): 47
Width (in): 27
diam (in): 25
Height (cm): 60
Width (cm): 80
Depth (cm): 75.5

Material

marble

Location

Gallery 12

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  • Allegory
  • Art And Design Movements
  • Female Figure
  • Fine Art
  • Mythology And Fantasy
  • Natural World
  • Night
  • People
  • Pre 1900
  • Rodin, Auguste
  • Sculpture
  • Symbolism

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