Meditation (sculpture)

Meditation

Year	1886
Medium	Plaster

Meditation from the image collection at the Musee Rodin.

Meditation or The Interior Voice is an 1886 plaster sculpture by Auguste Rodin, showing a young woman resting her head on her right shoulder. The figure was also used on the right end of the tympanum of Rodin's The Gates of Hell, with a right hand added, extended in horror at the fate that awaits her in Hell.^[1]

The figure was also used in Rodin's Monument to Victor Hugo, representing one of the poet's muses.^[2] For Gates Rodin cut off its arms, left knee and part of its right leg. He exhibited the plaster as an independent work in 1896.^[3]

References

↑ (in Spanish) La puerta del Infierno. México: Fundación Carlos Slim. 2016. p. 233-235. ISBN 9786077805182.
↑ http://www.musee-rodin.fr/en/collections/sculptures/meditation-or-inner-voice
↑ http://www.rodinmuseum.org/collections/permanent/103390.html

Auguste Rodin
Works	Man with the Broken Nose (1863) Alsatian Orphan (1871) Suzon (1872-73) The Age of Bronze (1876) The Walking Man (1877–78) La Defense (1879) The Maiden Kissed by the Ghost (1880) The Shade (1880) The Gates of Hell (1880/1917) The Thinker (1880, locations) Adam (1880-81) Eve (1881) Crouching Woman (1880–1882) Saint John the Baptist (1880/1907) Ugolino and His Sons (1881) The Kiss (1882) I am beautiful (1882) The Falling Man (1882) Jules Dalou (1883) Bust of Maurice Haquette (1883) Bust of Victor Hugo (1883) Eternal Springtime (1884) Torso of Adele (c. 1884) The Burghers of Calais (1884–1889) Pierre de Wiessant Head of Camille Claudel (1884/1911) The Prodigal Son (1885) Mask of a Weeping Woman (1885) The Martyr (1885) Psyche Looking At Love (1885) Eustache de Saint Pierre (1885-86) Jean d'Aire (1885-86) Jean de Fiennes (1885-86) Avarice and Lust (1885–1887) Damned Women (1885–1890) The Old Tree (1885) Paolo and Francesca (1885) Young Mother (1885) Young Mother in the Grotto (1885) The Three Shades (1886) Meditation (1886) Fugitive Love (1886–87) Ovid's Metamorphoses (1886–1889) Head of Saint John the Baptist (1887) The Sirens (1887) Polyphemus (1888) Standing Mercury (1888) The Kneeling Man (1888) Adonis Awakens (1889) Andromeda (1889) Glaucus (1889) Kneeling Female Faun (1889) The Succubus (1889) Brother and Sister (1890) Danaid (1890) Cybele (1890/1904) Monument to Balzac (1892–1897) Balzac in the Robe of a Dominican Monk (1892) Youth Triumphant (c. 1894) Octave Mirdeau (1895) Bacchantes Embracing (c. 1896) The Spirit of Eternal Repose (1898–99) Illusions Received by the Earth (pre-1900) Desperation (1899-1900) The Athlete (1901-1904) The Death of Adonis (1903-1906) The Cathedral (1908) The Prayer (1909) Standing Female Faun (1910) Young Woman with a Serpent
Museums	Hôtel Biron, Paris Musée Rodin, Paris Rodin Museum, Philadelphia Plateau (closed)
People	Camille Claudel
In popular culture	Camille Claudel (1988 film) Camille Claudel 1915 (2013 film) Rodin (2017 film)
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