Despair (French: Le Désespoir) or Despair at the Gate (French: Désespoir de la Porte) is a sculpture by Auguste Rodin that he conceived and developed from the early 1880s to c. 1890 as part of his The Gates of Hell project.

The figure belongs to a company of damned souls found in the nine circles of Hell described by Dante in The Divine Comedy.

[3][4] There are numerous versions of this work executed as both plaster and bronze casts and carved marble and limestone.

This time, the woman's extended leg is horizontal and she is clasping her left foot with both hands.

However, the unusual acrobatic pose doesn't correspond to any passage in The Divine Comedy or any other work of literature.