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Torso of Adèle
Torso of Adèle
	The work as exhibited at the Cité nationale de l'histoire de l'immigration in 2017
Artist	Auguste Rodin
Year	c. 1884
Type	Sculpture
Medium	Plaster; Terracotta

Torso of Adele is an 1878-1884 sculpture by the French artist Auguste Rodin, originally modelled in plaster before being worked in terracotta.

Work edit

Judith Cladel (Rodin's friend and biographer) states that it arose from his study of caryatids. The model was probably the Italian Adèle Abruzzesi,^[1]^[2] one of Rodin's favourite models. The sculpture was only completed in 1889 by the addition of the legs and left arm, for use in the top left-hand corner of The Gates of Hell. It does not appear in William Elborne's 1887 photographs of The Gates and so Rodin probably added it later. He also used the same torso, with a head added, for the female figures in Eternal Springtime and Illusions Received by the Earth.^[3]

References edit

^ "Torso of Adele". Musee Rodin.
^ (in Spanish) «Rodin, el torso de Adèle y el origen del mundo». Una temporada en el infierno. 19 March 2017.
^ (in Spanish) Museo Rodin, Museo Soumaya (2016). La puerta del Infierno. Méxicco: Fundación Carlos Slim. ISBN 9786077805182.