Despair (sculpture)
Sculpture by Auguste Rodin / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Despair (French: Le Désespoir) or Despair at the Gate (French: Désespoir de la Porte) is a sculpture by Auguste Rodin that he conceived and developed from the early 1880s to c. 1890 as part of his The Gates of Hell project. The figure belongs to a company of damned souls found in the nine circles of Hell described by Dante in The Divine Comedy.[1][2] Other title variations are Shade Holding her Foot, Woman Holding Her Foot, and Desperation (French: Les Désespérés).[3][4] There are numerous versions of this work executed as both plaster and bronze casts and carved marble and limestone.[5][6]