The Shade (sculpture)

The Shade, The Slave or The Titan^[2] is a sculpture by the French artist Auguste Rodin.

The Shade
full-size version in the garden of the Musée Rodin, cast in 1946 by Alexis Rudier from the 1904 model[1]
Artist	Auguste Rodin
Year	c.1880 (conception)
Medium	plaster / bronze

Evolution

The sculpture was conceived around 1880 and used in triplicate as a part of the artist's large-scale work The Gates of Hell.^[1][3] It evolved into both the full size sculpture The Three Shades, and a separate sculpture of a single figure, The Shade.

The original individual figure had no right hand - Rodin had Josef Maratka add one in 1904 for both the individual figure and The Three Shades.

See also

• List of sculptures by Auguste Rodin