Vénus Astarté (Semitic goddess of fertility and love)
Medium
plaster
Dimensions
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Classification
Sculpture
Department
Modern European Painting and Sculpture
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
John L. Severance Fund
Accession Number
2000.22
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About this artwork
This relief of a female nude standing in water may represent the only time the great French sculptor Auguste Rodin provided an ornament for a precious object: a gold and enamel hand mirror designed by Felix Bracquemond (1833–1914). The mirror—acquired by the museum in 1978—was made for Baron Joseph Vitta, one of Rodin's most important patrons during the years around 1900, and it was probably for this reason that the artist agreed to the commission. This plaster cast of Rodin's nude was an interm...