Nude figure on hands and knees 1900–1910 Auguste Rodin French Rodin rarely included any setting or background in his drawings of female nudes. This example, however, belongs to a series in which he played with the aqueous quality of the watercolor medium to suggest a marine environment. He seems to have enjoyed the blotches and tide lines created by using too much water on his brush, actively seeking this effect in a number of drawings. This work was a gift to the Museum by Thomas Fortune Ryan, who also donated Beside the Sea (), a marble sculpture of a similar Nude figure on

Nude figure on hands and knees 1900–1910 Auguste Rodin French Rodin rarely included any setting or background in his drawings of female nudes. This example, however, belongs to a series in which he played with the aqueous quality of the watercolor medium to suggest a marine environment. He seems to have enjoyed the blotches and tide lines created by using too much water on his brush, actively seeking this effect in a number of drawings. This work was a gift to the Museum by Thomas Fortune Ryan, who also donated Beside the Sea (), a marble sculpture of a similar Nude figure on hands and knees 339715

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