Seated Bather with Feet Apart (Baigneuse assise, pieds écartés)
Brooklyn Museum photograph
Caption
Auguste Rodin (French, 1840–1917). Seated Bather with Feet Apart (Baigneuse assise, pieds écartés), 1895–1900; cast after 1972. Bronze, 5 1/2 × 7 × 4 1/2 in. (14 × 17.8 × 11.4 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Foundation, 84.75.1. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
Gallery
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Gallery
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Artist
Title
Seated Bather with Feet Apart (Baigneuse assise, pieds écartés)
Date
1895–1900; cast after 1972
Geography
Place made: France
Medium
Bronze
Classification
Dimensions
5 1/2 × 7 × 4 1/2 in. (14 × 17.8 × 11.4 cm)
Signatures
Thigh, proper left side: "A. Rodin."
Inscriptions
Proper left thigh: "No 5"
Markings
Proper right thigh: "Georges Rudier./Fondeur. Paris." Copyright mark, proper left thigh, underside: "© by Musée Rodin"
Credit Line
Gift of the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Foundation
Accession Number
84.75.1
Frequent Art Questions
Were the models who could make these poses professional models, athletes, or dancers or did Rodin exaggerate the poses?
For many of his sculptures, Rodin invited athletic models and professionally trained dancers into his studio to pose for him; he was interested in the expressiveness of the professionally trained body. However, Rodin also liked to manipulate his clay sculptures to exaggerate poses for expressive purposes.
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