10
inches high x 11 inches long
(25 x 28cm)
Cultured Marble Statue
Rodin Museum, Paris, 1884
Eternal Springtime is full of awakening sensuality and implying neither guilt
nor punishment to come. This sculpture was extremely popular, and Rodin repeated
it often both in marble and in bronze. This bronze displays the sensuous, veiled
quality of carving that creates an impressionistic play of light and shade on
the surface of the medium characteristic of the sculptures of Rodin's later
career.
The two young nude figures meet in a kiss. Her legs graze the ground and her
upper body is held in a taut arc and supported by the embrace of the male
figure. He is posed precariously on the edge of a rocky mound, crossing his
legs, extending his left foot beyond the base of the sculpture and his left arm
in a full and graceful reach into space.
This is a reproduction of a bronze sculpture made around
1916-1917 and it was modeled around 1884. The torso of the woman in this group
is recognizable as that of a model named Adèle Abruzzezzi. She also appears in
a very different context in The Gates of Hell and modelled for Rodin often.
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