Despairing Adolescent

Auguste Rodin

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Rodin produced more than a dozen figures embodying human expressions of despair. The original context of this tortured youth was as one of the damned on the lower section of The Gates of Hell. Body erect, torso arched, face and arms reaching toward the heavens, the adolescent hopelessly yearns for redemption.

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