Love on the rocks
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Auguste Rodin
1840-1917
Eternal Spring,modeled ca.1881,carved 1907
Marble
The woman arches her torso in willful surrender to her partner,who bends at his ease to kiss her.Rodin sought to temper the work's overt eroticism by giving it a variety of classicizing titles.
First called Zephyr and Earth and later exhibited in the Paris Salon of 1897 as Cupid and Psyche,the composition's true subject is sensuality and impassioned lovemaking.
The marble version commissioned in 1896 by the railroad and banker Isaac D. Fischer displays the soft, veiled carving associated with Rodin's late marbles.
Love on the rocks
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Auguste Rodin
1840-1917
Eternal Spring,modeled ca.1881,carved 1907
Marble
The woman arches her torso in willful surrender to her partner,who bends at his ease to kiss her.Rodin sought to temper the work's overt eroticism by giving it a variety of classicizing titles.
First called Zephyr and Earth and later exhibited in the Paris Salon of 1897 as Cupid and Psyche,the composition's true subject is sensuality and impassioned lovemaking.
The marble version commissioned in 1896 by the railroad and banker Isaac D. Fischer displays the soft, veiled carving associated with Rodin's late marbles.