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The Martyr (sculpture)
The Martyr or The Little Martyr is a c.1885 plaster sculpture of a naked dead or sleeping female figure by Auguste Rodin, now in the Musee Rodin.[1] Gates of HellThe sculpture is a study for a figure in the top left of Rodin's major work The Gates of Hell, though he later removed the corresponding figure from Gates.[2][3] It was originally exhibited at the Exposition Universelle, representing the Bronze Age, and is now in the Musée Rodin in Paris.[4] Versions There is an enlarged blackened bronze cast of the work now in The Metropolitan Museum of Art.[5] He later removed the figure's head to produce Flying Figure (c.1890) - a cast of this is now also in the Metropolitan.[6] See alsoReferences
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