# The Three Shades

[View the canonical artwork record](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/rodin-auguste-r3d20d909489aff/the-three-shades-r51b2b9e037d48b>)

## Artwork

- Artist: [RODIN, Auguste](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/rodin-auguste-r3d20d909489aff>)
- Date: 1851-1900
- Technique: Bronze, 97 x 94 x 52 cm

## Commentary

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.

## Related artworks

- [Adam \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/rodin-auguste-r3d20d909489aff/adam-detail-r99a2abd6c6a071>)
- [Adam](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/rodin-auguste-r3d20d909489aff/adam-r7d643ad8531508>)
- [Adam](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/rodin-auguste-r3d20d909489aff/adam-rb152717c1f47f8>)
- [Adam](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/rodin-auguste-r3d20d909489aff/adam-rd0737a78f26aca>)
- [Balzac \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/rodin-auguste-r3d20d909489aff/balzac-detail-r8099b93f0d0220>)
- [Balzac](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/rodin-auguste-r3d20d909489aff/balzac-r57709778c44f74>)
- [Balzac](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/rodin-auguste-r3d20d909489aff/balzac-rbbd14055b4a6a4>)
- [Bellona](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/rodin-auguste-r3d20d909489aff/bellona-rf253fa0878f9c6>)
- [Bust of Étienne Clémentel](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/rodin-auguste-r3d20d909489aff/bust-of-tienne-clmentel-re042cb8264c59e>)
- [Bust of Victor Hugo with Modeled Base](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/rodin-auguste-r3d20d909489aff/bust-of-victor-hugo-with-modeled-base-ra46d3460d31f54>)
- [Cathedral](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/rodin-auguste-r3d20d909489aff/cathedral-r22f7ad36cb0ac6>)
- [Danaid \(The Source\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/rodin-auguste-r3d20d909489aff/danaid-the-source-r6cd434fb357be7>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)