The author depicted a giant hovering over a small rock shelter where two lovers are hiding. The painting is inspired by the myth about the cyclop Polyphemus (Πολύφημος) who fell in love with the sea nymph Galatea (Γαλάτεια), but she had already given her heart to the Sicilian shepherd named Acis (Αχις). Polyphemus found Galatea and Acis in a shelter near the sea. The frightened Galatea threw herself into the sea and was saved by the waves. Furious Polyphemus killed Acis by crushing him under a rock torn from the Etna. Acis's blood formed a stream beneath the rock. Galatea turned it into a river flowing down the Etna and into the sea (the river Acis, Aci). The rock that killed Acis cracked and green leaves of reeds appeared in the crevice. From the pure stream appeared a young man with a bluish face wearing a wreath of reeds. It was Acis, he became the river god. In another version of the myth the couple jumped into the sea and turned into two fishes. The sculpture was cast as two separated pieces which were later connected by bronze braces and inside rivets. The author’s autograph on the back slope of the rock reads: “Rodin”.
Rodin Auguste. Sculptural composition “Jealousy”
France ,
1945
МЗСБ КП 3344
28,6 х 23,5 х 15 cm. weight 5,430 kg
bronze, casting, soldering, grinding, decorative patina-forming treatment
Rodin Auguste. Sculptural composition “Jealousy” (“Rage”) [1890-1900]. A gift from M.F. Westmacot, a collector of artworks, to heroic Stalingrad, 1945
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Souvenir “Partisan girl of Vietnam”
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Egypt ,
1958
Small sculpture “The Symbol of Peace” on a pedestal and a stand
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