Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00010777Les Damnées
About the Artwork
Rodin derived this couple, whose twisted bodies are locked painfully together, from the naked figures writhing in agony in his monumental sculpture The Gates of Hell.
Inscriptions
Signed front bottom right: "A. Rodin"
Provenance
Estate of Edgar A. Hahn
Exhibition history
Year in Review: 1972. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 27-March 18, 1973). Traditions and Revisions: Themes from the History of Sculpture. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 24-November 16, 1975). Picasso and the Mysteries of Life: La Vie. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 12, 2012-April 21, 2013).
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Auguste Rodin (French, 1840–1917)
- Date
- 1885–1895
- Medium
- bronze
- Dimensions
- Overall: 25.6 x 41.9 x 27 cm (10 1/16 x 16 1/2 x 10 5/8 in.)
- Type
- Sculpture
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Department
- Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Bequest of Edgar A. Hahn
- Accession no.
- 1972.278
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