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    • Pair of Nude Male Figures, Demonstrating the Principles of Contrapposto According to Michelangelo and Phidias, ca. 1911
    Auguste Rodin (French, 1847–1917)
    Terracotta

    H. (each) 14 1/2 in. (36.8 cm)
    Gift of B. Gerald Cantor Art Foundation, 1987 (1987.179.1,.2)

    The Metropolitan Museum’s Rodins sparked the initial enthusiasm of one of the great collectors of the art of the French sculptor. In a spirit of reciprocity, B. Gerald Cantor and his wife, Iris, gave more than thirty sculptures by Rodin to the Museum during the 1980s. The two figures from the collection of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney were presented to her by Rodin during a visit to his studio in Paris at the Hôtel Biron in 1911.

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  • Draper, James David. "French Terracottas." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 49, no. 3 (Winter, 1991–92).
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  • Pair of Nude Male Figures, Demonstrating the Principles of Contrapposto According to Michelangelo and Phidias, ca. 1911
    Auguste Rodin (French, 1847–1917)
    Terracotta

    H. (each) 14 1/2 in. (36.8 cm)
    Gift of B. Gerald Cantor Art Foundation, 1987 (1987.179.1,.2)