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Auguste Rodin
Minotaur or Faun and Nymphcirca 1886

Not on view
Bronze sculpture of a horned, faun-like seated figure embracing a small child, with dark green patina and loosely modeled surface, on a rough rocky base
Bronze sculpture of two nude figures embracing, viewed from behind, with rough modeled surfaces merging into an unfinished rocky base, dark patina.
Bronze sculpture of a seated nude figure with animal-eared horns, viewed from behind at three-quarter angle, with a smaller figure at lower right, dark green-brown patina, rough textured base, loosely modeled surfaces.

Auguste Rodin, Minotaur or Faun and Nymph, circa 1886 (alternate view), Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of Leona Cantor Palmer, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Auguste Rodin
France, Paris, 1840-1917
Title
Minotaur or Faun and Nymph
Place Made
France
Date Made
circa 1886
Medium
Bronze
Dimensions
13 1/2 × 10 × 11 in. (34.29 × 25.4 × 27.94 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Leona Cantor Palmer
Accession Number
M.72.81.1
Classification
Sculpture
Collecting Area
European Painting and Sculpture
Selected Bibliography
  • Schaefer, Scott, and Peter Fusco. European Painting and Sculpture in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art: an Illustrated Summary Catalogue. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1987.
  • Butler, Ruth; Hargrove, June E.; Holderbaum, James; Hunisak, John M. and Anne M. Wagner. The Romantics to Rodin. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1980.