The Shade (sculpture)

The Shade, The Slave or The Titan[2] is a sculpture by the French artist Auguste Rodin, conceived around 1880 and used in triplicate as a part of the artist's large-scale work The Gates of Hell.[1][3] It evolved into both the full size sculpture The Three Shades, and a separate sculpture of a single figure, The Shade.

The Shade
full-size version in the garden of the Musée Rodin, cast in 1946 by Alexis Rudier from the 1904 model[1]
Artist	Auguste Rodin
Year	c.1880 (conception)
Medium	plaster / bronze

The original individual figure had no right hand - Rodin had Josef Maratka add one in 1904 for both the individual figure and The Three Shades.

References

1. Informational sign, Musée Rodin
2. (in French) Grappe, Georges (1944). Catalogue du Musée Rodin. I-Hôtel Biron (5th edition). Musée Rodin. p. [338d], no.57.
3. (in Spanish) Museo Soumaya, t. II. México: Fundación Carlos Slim. 2015. pp. 90-91.