| The Shade | |
| Image Upright: | 1 |
| Artist: | Auguste Rodin |
| Year: | c.1880 (conception) |
| Medium: | plaster / bronze |
The Shade, The Slave or The Titan[1] is a sculpture by the French artist Auguste Rodin.
The sculpture was conceived around 1880 and used in triplicate as a part of the artist's large-scale work The Gates of Hell.[2] [3] It evolved into both the full size sculpture The Three Shades, and a separate sculpture of a single figure, The Shade.
The original individual figure had no right hand - Rodin had Josef Maratka add one in 1904 for both the individual figure and The Three Shades.