  About the Artwork
  
  
  Here we see a personal and private expression of emotion in an intensely felt interpretation of Eve's shame and modesty. The life-size bronze figure turns in on herself and is closed, still, and rooted in the earth. Like the Thinker, Eve was one of the figures associated with the Gates of Hell.
  
  
  Title
  Eve
  
  
  Artwork Date
  1881
  
  
  
  
  Makers
  
  
  Auguste Rodin  (Artist)
  French, 1840-1917
  Alexis Rudier Foundry  (Foundry)
  French, 1874 - 1952
  
  
  
  Medium
  Bronze
  
  
  Dimensions
  Overall: 68 1/2 × 21 × 24 inches (174 × 53.3 × 61 cm)
  
  
  Classification
  Sculpture
  
  
  Department
  European Sculpture and Dec Arts
  
  
  Credit
  Founders Society Purchase, General Membership Fund
  
  
  
  Accession Number
  
  
  
  This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection.
  Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings.
  For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups.
  
  
  
  53.145
  
  
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