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| 2023-05-08 361 Damned Women (clay 1885, plaster 1927); Rodin Museum, Philadelphia |
| Rodin shocked Parisian audiences in 1889 when he exhibited plaster figures of female lovers like these, described at the time as "arch-backed, bent over, toppled, head over heels . . . couplings that no other sculptor had previously dared to handle." The models for these sculptures were dancers from the paris Opera recommeded to Rodin by his friend Edgar Degas. |