Rodin's Egypt

The exhibition brings together more than 60 objects that include Rodin's sculptures and antiquities from his collection, illuminating the ways in which Rodin's creative process was clearly inspired by these ancient works. Rodin's Egypt places the artist's own sculptures in dialogue with artifacts from his vast Egyptian collection, highlighting some of the direct influences of the latter on the former. The exhibition explores specific connections such as his Monument to Balzac with diminutive statuettes of shrouded Egyptian officials, while The Succubus finds kinship with Egyptian sphinx statues and bronze cat statuettes. Rodin occasionally incorporated Egyptian pieces into his own art, represented through female plaster figures emerging, sitting, and posing on Egyptian stone and ceramic vessels.