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Fragment Showing the Gates of Hell

ca. 1900

Artist: Auguste Rodin (French, 1840 - 1917)
Title: Fragment Showing the Gates of Hell
Date: ca. 1900
Place of Creation: France
Object Type: Sculpture
Medium: Plaster
Dimensions: 11 1/8 x 2 1/2 x 1 in. (28.3 x 6.4 x 2.5 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Adolph B. Spreckels, Jr.
Accession Number: 1933.12.21

Caso, Jacques de and Patricia B. Sanders, Rodin’s Sculpture, A Critical Study of the Spreckels Collection (San Francisco: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1977), pp. 178–183, no. 29.
Chapman, Martin, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin at the Legion of Honor (San Francisco: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 2017), pp. 80–81, pl. 22.

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