Meditation (sculpture)

Meditation
A bronze cast in the garden of the Musée Rodin
Artist	Auguste Rodin
Year	1886 (1886)
Type	Sculpture

Meditation or The Interior Voice is an 1886 sculpture by Auguste Rodin, showing a young woman resting her head on her right shoulder.

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The figure was also used on the right end of the tympanum of Rodin's The Gates of Hell, with a right hand added, extended in horror at the fate that awaits her in Hell.^[1]

Detail of the work without arms at the Museo Soumaya.

The figure was also used in Rodin's Monument to Victor Hugo, representing one of the poet's muses.^[2] For Gates, Rodin cut off its arms, left knee and part of its right leg. He exhibited the plaster as an independent work in 1896.^[3]

References

^ (in Spanish) La puerta del Infierno. México: Fundación Carlos Slim. 2016. p. 233-235. ISBN 9786077805182.
^ "Meditation or The Inner Voice". Musee Rodin. Retrieved 2019-09-06.
^ "Meditation". Musee Rodin. Retrieved 2019-09-06.

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Works	List of sculptures Man with the Broken Nose (1863) Alsatian Orphan (1871) Suzon (1872–73) The Age of Bronze (1876) La Defense (1879) The Maiden Kissed by the Ghost (1880) The Shade (1880) The Gates of Hell (1880/1917) The Thinker (1880, locations) Adam (1880–81) Eve (1881) Crouching Woman (1880–1882) Saint John the Baptist (1880/1907) Ugolino and His Sons (1881) The Kiss (1882) I Am Beautiful (1882) The Falling Man (1882) Jules Dalou (1883) Bust of Maurice Haquette (1883) Bust of Victor Hugo (1883) Eternal Springtime (1884) Torso of Adele (c. 1884) The Burghers of Calais (1884–1889) Head of Camille Claudel (1884/1911) The Prodigal Son (1885) Mask of a Weeping Woman (1885) The Martyr (1885) Psyche Looking at Love (1885) Eustache de Saint Pierre (1885–86) Jean d'Aire (1885–86) Jean de Fiennes (1885–86) Avarice and Lust (1885–1887) Damned Women (1885–1890) The Old Tree (1885) Paolo and Francesca (1885) Young Mother (1885) Young Mother in the Grotto (1885) Young Woman with a Serpent (c. 1885) The Three Shades (1886) Meditation (1886) Fugitive Love (1886–87) Ovid's Metamorphoses (1886–1889) Pierre de Wiessant (1887) Head of Saint John the Baptist (1887) The Sirens (1887) Polyphemus (1888) Standing Mercury (1888) The Kneeling Man (1888) Adonis Awakens (1889) Andromeda (1889) Glaucus (1889) Kneeling Female Faun (1889) The Succubus (1889) Despair (c. 1890) Brother and Sister (1890) Danaid (1890) Cybele (1890/1904) Monument to Balzac (1892–1897) Balzac in the Robe of a Dominican Monk (1892) Youth Triumphant (c. 1894) Octave Mirdeau (1895) Iris, Messenger of the Gods (c. 1895) Bacchantes Embracing (c. 1896) The Spirit of Eternal Repose (1898–99) Illusions Received by the Earth (pre-1900) The Athlete (1901–1904) The Death of Adonis (1903–1906) Adam and Eve (1905) The Walking Man (1907) The Cathedral (1908) The Prayer (1909) Standing Female Faun (1910)
Museums	Musée Rodin (Hôtel Biron), Paris Rodin Museum, Philadelphia Museu Rodin Bahia, Salvador Plateau (closed)
People	Camille Claudel
Depictions	1888–89 Claudel bust 1909 Bourdelle bust Rodin — The Thinker (1902 photograph) Camille Claudel (1988 film) Camille Claudel (2003 musical) Camille Claudel 1915 (2013 film) Rodin (2017 film)
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