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Seated Bather, also called Zoubaloff Bather, Conceived in 1888, this cast executed between 1896 et 1910

Auguste Rodin

Exhibited by Stuart Lochhead Sculpture

Material Plaster

Dimensions 36.5 x 19 x 21.5 cm

Place of Creation France

Status Vetted

About the Work

This elegant plaster figure of a 'Seathed Bather', also known as the 'Zoubaloff Bather', from the name of the collector who owned a series of bather figures by the artist, is an excellent example of Rodin’s handling of the female nude. The figure’s expressive pose, including her unnatural elongation of the legs and arms, and the careful rendering of her bosom and belly, belongs to a moment in the late 1880s when Rodin was exploring new possibilities for intimate, introspective representations of the female form.

The present plaster originally formed part of the collection of the illustrious Marseille collector Anthony Roux, a key figure in the history of Rodin’s reception in France and internationally at the turn of the twentieth century.

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