Genius of Eternal Rest, without Head and Arms

Auguste Rodin French
 Founder Coubertin Foundry

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 800

This mourning genius (or spirit) is a truncated reworking, on a smaller scale, of a full-length figure with a head and arms that was originally intended for Rodin’s funerary monument to the painter Pierre Puvis de Chavannes. Based on an antique model, the sculpture evokes the shared love of classical art at the core of Rodin and Puvis’s friendship and artistic practices. The figure’s unbalanced pose, however—accentuated here by the missing appendages—defies classical ideals even as it recalls them.

Genius of Eternal Rest, without Head and Arms, Auguste Rodin (French, Paris 1840–1917 Meudon), Bronze, French

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Genius of Eternal Rest, without Head and Arms, Auguste Rodin (French, Paris 1840–1917 Meudon), Bronze, French
Genius of Eternal Rest, without Head and Arms, Auguste Rodin (French, Paris 1840–1917 Meudon), Bronze, French
Genius of Eternal Rest, without Head and Arms, Auguste Rodin (French, Paris 1840–1917 Meudon), Bronze, French
Genius of Eternal Rest, without Head and Arms, Auguste Rodin (French, Paris 1840–1917 Meudon), Bronze, French

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