Auguste Rodin

This piece is called “The Martyr” or “The Little Martyr” by Auguste Rodin. Rodin was a famous French sculpture who was lived between November 12^th, 1840 – November 17^th, 1917. This piece was completed in 1885 and is a plaster sculpture of a naked dead or sleeping woman. Originally this piece was a study of a figure that was on Rodin’s other famous work, “The Gates of Hell”, which was later removed form the piece. I chose this piece due to the depiction of agony it represents. The body is contorted in such a way that shows a burden of suffering, and I think Rodin captured this beautifully. The sculpture now resides in Musee Rodin in Paris.