Auguste Rodin | Fugit Amor, 1886 | Musée d'Orsay, Paris
This small group which originally featured in La Porte de l'Enfer (The Gates of Hell) commissioned in 1880, was the biggest project of Rodin's🎨 life.
The sculptor chose to illustrate Dante's L'Enfer (Inferno), populated by the tortured souls of the damned.
He worked on it for at least twenty years without ever finishing it.
This monumental work of one hundred and eighty six figures was, for Rodin, an opportunity to create a ‘reservoir' from which he would draw for future compositions.