The Maiden Kissed by the Ghost
The Maiden Kissed by the Ghost | |
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The Museo Soumaya version. | |
Artist | Auguste Rodin |
Year | 1880 |
Medium | Bronze |
The Maiden Kissed by the Ghost (known by the artist as Le baiser du fantôme et la demoiselle[a] or Le Rêve[b] ) is an 1880 sculpture by the French artist Auguste Rodin. It was first exhibited at his fourteenth exhibition, hosted by the National Society Salon.[1] One of the marble versions of the work is now in the Museo Soumaya in Mexico City.[2]
It shows a winged man above a young woman, who tries not to return his kiss. The work shows Rodin's admiration for Michelangelo's treatment of the human form and draws on The Divine Comedy as well as the story of Orpheus and descriptions of the underworld by Hesiod. He also particularly drew on lines 25-30 and 39-40 in The Horseman, poem 23 in the 1861 edition of Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal:[3]
Je plongerai ma tête amoureuse d'ivresse
Dans ce noir océan où l'autre est enfermé;
Et mon esprit subtil que le roulis caresse
Saura vous retrouver, ô féconde paresse,
Infinis bercements du loisir embaumé!
(...)
N'es-tu pas l'oasis où je rêve, et la gourde
Où je hume à longs traits le vin du souvenir?[c]
Rodin reused the figure of the woman in several other variants such as the Torso of Adele, Eternal Springtime, Paolo and Francesca and The Kiss.[1]
See also
Notes
- ^ The Kiss of the Phantom and the Maiden
- ^ The Dream, possibly referring to Sigmund Freud and his theory of the unconscious mind.[1]
- ^ I will plunge my head, amorous with intoxication
Into this black ocean where the other one is enclosed;
And my subtle spirit that the wave caresses
Shall find in you, oh fecund laziness,
Infinite cradles of embalmed leisure!
...
Are you not the oasis where I dream, and the gourd
From which I gulp down the wine of memory in long draughts?
References
- ^ a b c (in Spanish) Museo Soumaya (2005). Seis siglos de arte. Cien grandes maestros. México: Fundación Carso. ISBN 9687794305.
- ^ (in Spanish) Museo Soumaya (2015). Museo Soumaya - catálogo. Fundación Carlos Slim. p. 128-129. ISBN 9786077805137.
- ^ (in Spanish) Museo Soumaya (2007). «VI - Mitos y alegorías». La era de Rodin (1ª edición). México: Fundación Carlos Slim. p. 83-84. ISBN 9789687794365.
External links
- Media related to The Maiden Kissed by the Ghost by Auguste Rodin at Wikimedia Commons
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- Man with the Broken Nose (1863)
- Alsatian Orphan (1871)
- Suzon (1872–73)
- The Age of Bronze (1876)
- La Defense (1879)
- The Maiden Kissed by the Ghost (1880)
- The Shade (1880)
- The Gates of Hell (1880/1917)
- The Thinker (1880, locations)
- Adam (1880–81)
- Eve (1881)
- Crouching Woman (1880–1882)
- Saint John the Baptist (1880/1907)
- Ugolino and His Sons (1881)
- The Kiss (1882)
- I Am Beautiful (1882)
- The Falling Man (1882)
- Jules Dalou (1883)
- Bust of Maurice Haquette (1883)
- Bust of Victor Hugo (1883)
- Eternal Springtime (1884)
- Torso of Adele (c. 1884)
- The Burghers of Calais (1884–1889)
- Head of Camille Claudel (1884/1911)
- The Prodigal Son (1885)
- Mask of a Weeping Woman (1885)
- The Martyr (1885)
- Psyche Looking at Love (1885)
- Eustache de Saint Pierre (1885–86)
- Jean d'Aire (1885–86)
- Jean de Fiennes (1885–86)
- Avarice and Lust (1885–1887)
- Damned Women (1885–1890)
- The Old Tree (1885)
- Paolo and Francesca (1885)
- Young Mother (1885)
- Young Mother in the Grotto (1885)
- Young Woman with a Serpent (c. 1885)
- The Three Shades (1886)
- Meditation (1886)
- Fugitive Love (1886–87)
- Ovid's Metamorphoses (1886–1889)
- Pierre de Wiessant (1887)
- Head of Saint John the Baptist (1887)
- The Sirens (1887)
- Polyphemus (1888)
- Standing Mercury (1888)
- The Kneeling Man (1888)
- Adonis Awakens (1889)
- Andromeda (1889)
- Glaucus (1889)
- Kneeling Female Faun (1889)
- The Succubus (1889)
- Despair (c. 1890)
- Brother and Sister (1890)
- Danaid (1890)
- Cybele (1890/1904)
- Monument to Balzac (1892–1897)
- Balzac in the Robe of a Dominican Monk (1892)
- Youth Triumphant (c. 1894)
- Octave Mirdeau (1895)
- Iris, Messenger of the Gods (c. 1895)
- Bacchantes Embracing (c. 1896)
- The Spirit of Eternal Repose (1898–99)
- Illusions Received by the Earth (pre-1900)
- The Athlete (1901–1904)
- The Death of Adonis (1903–1906)
- Adam and Eve (1905)
- The Walking Man (1907)
- The Cathedral (1908)
- The Prayer (1909)
- Standing Female Faun (1910)
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- Rodin Museum, Philadelphia
- Museu Rodin Bahia, Salvador
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- 1888–89 Claudel bust
- 1909 Bourdelle bust
- Rodin — The Thinker (1902 photograph)
- Camille Claudel (1988 film)
- Camille Claudel (2003 musical)
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