Eve (after the Fall)
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Eve (after the Fall)
Maker
Auguste Rodin
(b. 1840, Paris, France – d. 1917, Meudon, France)
Date1899
GeographyFrance, Europe
MediumMarble
Dimensions30 3/4 in. x 8 in. (78.1 cm x 20.3 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. Dan Erskine Edgerton (Phyllis Burke, Class of 1917) in memory of their daughter, Nancy Edgerton Johnson
Object number1982.4
Status
On viewProvenance1899, commissioned by Julia Richardson of Riverside, Illinois; c. 1914, brought to Rome by Julia Richardson; post-World War I, returned to the United States in the collection of Julia Richardson; 1949, by descent to Mr. and Mrs. Dan Erskine Edgerton (Phyllis Burke, Class of 1917); 1953, on extended loan to the Davis Museum; 1967, returned to Mr. and Mrs. Dan Erskine Edgerton; 1977, on extended loan to the Davis Museum; 1982, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Dan Erskine Edgerton to the Davis Museum.
RightsCopyright is retained in accordance with U.S. Copyright laws
Photo creditDavis Museum at Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
More InformationRodin received the commission for this marble from Julia Richardson (the grandmother of donor Dan Edgerton), who visited him in his studio in Paris in 1899. Correspondence between Mrs. Richardson and the artist documents the close attention he paid to its execution. Rodin first carved the subject in marble in 1883, though its origins can be traced to an unrealized project started in 1880 known as The Gates of Hell. This extensive portal adorned with constellations of sculptural figures inspired by Dante’s Divine Comedy would have served as the iron doors to Paris’s Musée des Arts Decoratifs. Eve and Adam would have flanked The Thinker on the transom at center.