COLLECTION NAME:
Archivision Base to Module 9
Record
Preferred Title:
Meditation, or The Inner Voice
Image View:
Overall view from right showing contrapposto
Creator:
Auguste Rodin (French sculptor, 1840-1917)
Location:
repository: Musée Rodin (Paris, Île-de-France, France) S.1125
Location Note:
Hôtel Biron; 79 rue de Varenne
GPS:
+48.8555281+2.315902
Date:
1896 (creation)
Cultural Context:
French
Style Period:
Nineteenth century
Work Type 1:
maquette (sculpture)
Work Type 2:
sculpture (visual work)
Classification:
sculpture
Material:
plaster
Technique:
modeling (forming)
Measurements:
147 cm (height) x 76 cm (width) x 55 cm (depth)
Description:
Meditation originated in a figure on the tympanum of The Gates of Hell, inspired by Michelangelo. She was then reworked into the Monument to Victor Hugo, before being enlarged under the name The Inner Voice. She represented one of the muses who inspired the poet. In order to include her in the monument, Rodin had to remove her arms and amputate part of her legs. Outside of this context, the figure was exhibited in the same state in Dresden and Stockholm in 1897, but because of its unfinished appearance, the public found it hard to understand. (Source: Musée Rodin [website]; http://www.musee-rodin.fr/en/)
Collection:
Archivision Addition Module Nine
Identifier:
7A1-RA-TIVM-A02
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
Meditation, or The Inner Voice
