Eve (Rodin)

In 1880 Rodin was commissioned to produce The Gates of Hell, for which he exhibited Adam at the 1881 Paris Salon.

In a sketch for Gates Rodin showed a central silhouette possibly intended as Eve (both the sketch and Gates are now in the Musée Rodin), but in October 1881 he decided to produce Eve as a pair for Adam, with the two sculptures flanking a huge high-relief bas-relief.

He began Eve in 1881, later abandoning his intended colossal version of it when he realised his model, probably Adèle Abruzzesi, was pregnant.

It shows a strong influence from Michelangelo, picked up by Rodin in Italy in 1876.

Media related to Eve by Auguste Rodin at Wikimedia Commons

Éve au rocher in bronze, Jardin des Tuileries , Paris
Eve by Rodin, model c. 1881, carved 1890/1891, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
The statue was buried for safekeeping during WWI