The Embrace

1900–1910

Dating: Date range
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Graphite, watercolor, and gouache
Dimensions: 12 13/16 x 9 7/8 in. (32.5 x 25.1 cm)
Collection no.: 10.66.6
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Auguste Rodin. The Embrace. Auguste Rodin; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; John Stewart Kennedy Fund, 1910. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

About this artwork

The Embrace — Auguste Rodin. 1900–1910.

Medium: Graphite, watercolor, and gouache. Dimensions: 12 13/16 x 9 7/8 in. (32.5 x 25.1 cm).

Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Credit line: John Stewart Kennedy Fund, 1910.

This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.

Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.

Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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