1881-86 (model), cast 1969
Bronze, 97 x 94 x 52 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The Shades are three separate casts of the same figure that has been rotated into different positions. Each is a small version of the monumental bronze Adam that Rodin once planned to place at one side of The Gates of Hell. In the final version of The Gates, the Shades stood above the centre of the lintel and personify the dead.
