| The Martyr | |
| Other Language 1: | French |
| Other Title 1: | La Martyre |
| Image Upright: | 1 |
| Artist: | Auguste Rodin |
| Type: | Sculpture |
| Material: | Bronze |
| Height Metric: | 27.6 |
| Width Metric: | 148 |
| Length Metric: | 98.5 |
| Height Imperial: | 7.0 |
| Width Imperial: | 37.6 |
| Length Imperial: | 25 |
| City: | Mexico City |
| Museum: | Museo Soumaya |
The Martyr or The Little Martyr is a c.1885 plaster sculpture of a naked dead or sleeping female figure by Auguste Rodin, now in the Musee Rodin.[1]
The sculpture is a study for a figure in the top left of Rodin's major work The Gates of Hell, though he later removed the corresponding figure from Gates.[2] [3] It was originally exhibited at the Exposition Universelle, representing the Bronze Age, and is now in the Musée Rodin in Paris.[4]
There is an enlarged blackened bronze cast of the work now in The Metropolitan Museum of Art.[5] He later removed the figure's head to produce Flying Figure (c.1890) - a cast of this is now also in the Metropolitan.[6]