The idea for
this sculpture came to Rodin while listening to Beethoven’s Second Symphony. He
later confided to a friend, “God, how he must have suffered to write that! And
yet, it was while listening to it for the first time that I pictured ‘Eternal
Springtime,’ just as I have modeled it since.”
“Eternal
Springtime,” modeled in clay 1884; cast in plaster 1885, by Auguste Rodin
