Study for Obsession

Auguste Rodin

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Among the most telling of the gifts Rodin made to The Met in acknowledgment of the Museum’s acquisition of his sculptures, this study of a nude woman, rendered almost abstract by enclosure, announces the impenetrable mystery of the female form that so obsessed Rodin.

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The fifty thousand objects in the Museum's comprehensive and historically important collection of European sculpture and decorative arts reflect the development of a number of art forms in Western European countries from the early fifteenth through the early twentieth century. The holdings include sculpture in many sizes and media, woodwork and furniture, ceramics and glass, metalwork and jewelry, horological and mathematical instruments, and tapestries and textiles. Ceramics made in Asia for export to European markets and sculpture and decorative arts produced in Latin America during this period are also included among these works.

Metropolitan Museum of Art