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Auguste Rodin
She Who Was the Helmet-Maker's Beautiful Wifecirca 1889-circa 1890

Not on view
Bronze sculpture of a nude seated female figure hunched forward over bent knees, dark patina with green in recessed areas, set on a rough rock base
Bronze sculpture of a seated nude figure with head bowed forward and torso leaning over bent knees, perched on a roughly textured rock base, with dark green patina and expressive modeled surface.
Bronze sculpture of a nude figure leaning sharply forward over a rough-textured base, with deeply modeled musculature and a dark green patinated surface, rendered in an expressive, non-idealized style.
Bronze sculpture of a nude male figure seated on a rough rocky base, viewed from behind, torso twisted with one arm crossed over the body, dark green patinated surface.
Bronze sculpture of two nude figures, one standing and bending forward over a smaller crouching figure below, with dark green patinated surface and expressive, roughly modeled forms.

Auguste Rodin, She Who Was the Helmet-Maker's Beautiful Wife, circa 1889-circa 1890, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of Iris and B. Gerald Cantor, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Auguste Rodin
France, Paris, 1840-1917
Title
She Who Was the Helmet-Maker's Beautiful Wife
Place Made
France
Date Made
circa 1889-circa 1890
Medium
Bronze
Dimensions
19 1/2 x 12 x 7 3/4 in. (49.5 x 30.5 x 19.7 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Iris and B. Gerald Cantor
Accession Number
M.84.164
Classification
Sculpture
Collecting Area
European Painting and Sculpture
Selected Bibliography
  • Price, Lorna. Masterpieces from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1988.
  • 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.
  • Levkoff, Mary L. Rodin in His Time: The Cantor Gifts to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1994.
  • Natter, Tobias G. and Max Hollein. Klimt & Rodin: An Artistic Encounter. San Francisco: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco-Legion of Honor; Munich: DelMonico Books-Prestel, 2017.
  • Lehmbeck, Leah. True Nature: Rodin in Context. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2022.