The Shade
Auguste Rodin · Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen, Denmark · modelled 1880, this plaster cast 1903–1904
Photo: photographer not named in our source, as published on Street Art Utopia.
This white plaster of Rodin’s The Shade belongs to Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen. The museum dates the model to 1880 and this cast to 1903–1904; Carl Jacobsen ordered it from Rodin in August 1903, and it arrived in Copenhagen in June 1904. Source Source Checked
Seen 2021: the Glyptotek’s 2021 Rodin exhibition catalogue lists the plaster in its collection. We found no newer dated photo of the plaster itself. Source Checked
💡 5 things to know
- Ordered by Carl JacobsenThe museum’s collection list, as published by Rodin-Web, says Carl Jacobsen ordered the plaster in August 1903 and that it arrived in Copenhagen in June 1904. Source Checked
- Over two metres tallThe plaster is listed at 202 cm high, with inventory number 610. Source Checked
- Seven commissions in one yearJacobsen saw a large Rodin exhibition in Paris in 1900 and had commissioned seven sculptures before the year was over. Source Checked
- A bronze version tooThe museum also owns a bronze The Shade (inventory 2749), cast in 1902 and bought in 1953, according to the collection list; a visitor photographed it in the museum in September 2023. Source Source Checked
- A major Rodin collectionThe Glyptotek kept buying Rodin after Jacobsen died, and the New Carlsberg Foundation calls its holdings one of the finest Rodin collections in the world. Source Checked
📍 Where it is
Inside Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Dantes Plads 7, in central Copenhagen. Source Checked
Opens Google Maps at the museum (55.67253, 12.57177).
🗓️ Sightings
- 1903Aug
Ordered by Carl Jacobsen · collection list
- 1904Jun
Arrives in Copenhagen · collection list
- 2021
Listed in the Glyptotek’s Rodin catalogue
Green stamps mark dated photographs; amber stamps mark records or reports; red stamps mark loss. Publication dates are not camera dates.
🗞️ In the sources
“Ordered by Carl Jacobsen, August 1903; arrived in Copenhagen June 1904.”
“before the year was over, he had commissioned seven sculptures.”
✅ The facts
🔗 Related
All sources & image credits
- Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek: Auguste Rodin – Displacements, exhibition catalogue, essay by David J. Getsy (2021)
- Rodin-Web: Rodin sculptures at Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, after the catalogue French Sculpture II (1999)
- New Carlsberg Foundation: Bringing Rodin to Copenhagen (undated)
- Flickr, courthouselover: The Shade, bronze, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek (taken 13 Sep 2023)
- Image: photographer not named in our source, as published in the Street Art Utopia post; a 16:9 share image was made from it.
Last checked: 3 November 2026. How we verify art