Adonis1.0418_Rodin

Adonis1.0418_Rodin

Walters Art Gallery
OGCMA s.v. "Adonis"

Auguste Rodin, 1840-1917, "The Death of Adonis" ("Venus Kissing Adonis"), marble sculpture, after 1888, Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, accession number 27.491.

Rodin also produced plaster studies, ca. 1888, which are in the Rodin Museum, Philadelphia, the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen; and bronze casts are in the Musée Rodin, Paris (2 versions) and in private collections elsewhere.

Further bibliography is available at Tancock, pp. 276 ff. and Grappe, Georges and Musée Rodin, Paris. 1944. Catalogue du Musée Rodin. 5th ed. Volume 1: Hôtel Biron, no. 226.

The photographs at right are taken from the Walters Gallery site (above) and from the Musée Rodin site (below).

Rodin, Adonis

OGCMA slides are designed by Roger T. Macfarlane for use in Classical Civilization 241 courses at Brigham Young University.
The present resource contains information assembled for The Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts, 1400 – 1990’s, edited by J. Davidson Reid (Oxford 1994), and it is used with express permission from Oxford University Press.
Address concerns or inquiries to macfarlane@byu.edu.