Polyphemus (sculpture)

Polyphemus is an 1888 sculpture by Auguste Rodin, showing Polyphemus and his love for the Nereid Galatea, as told in Book XIII of Ovid's Metamorphoses. It was an initial study for the group of Polyphemus, Acis and Galatea at the centre of the right panel of The Gates of Hell.[1] Several bronze studies of Polyphemus' torso survive, but there is no known monumental version of the complete group.[2]

Polyphemus
The cast of the work in the Museo Soumaya
Artist	Auguste Rodin
Year	1888

A bronze cast of the work is now in the Museo Soumaya.

References

1. Le Normand-Romain, Antoinette (2006). Rodin The Gates of Hell. p. 42,43. ISBN 978-2-901428-69-5.
2. Elsen, Albert Edward; Jamison, Rosalyn Frankel (2003). Bernard Barryte, ed. Rodin's Art: the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Collection at Stanford University. New York, EUA: Oxford University Press. pp. 273-276. ISBN 0195133811.