The Museum's website for the work (
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"Eve with Pillar
Artist: Rodin, Auguste
Artist Nationality: French
Title: Eve with Pillar
Date: 1878/80
Medium: Bronze
Display Dimensions: 16 1/2 in. x 5 1/2 in. x 6 in. (41.91 cm x 13.97 cm x 15.24 cm)
Credit Line: Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Foundation
Accession Number: 2009.140"
and Wikipedia (
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"Eve ...is a figure in the Book of Genesis in the Hebrew Bible. In Islamic tradition, Eve is known as Adam's wife although she is not specifically named in the Qur'an.
According to the creation myth of Abrahamic religions, she is the first woman created by God (Yahweh, the god of Israel). Her husband was Adam, from whose rib God created her to be his companion. She succumbs to the serpent's temptation via the suggestion that to eat the forbidden fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil would improve on the way God had made her, and that she would not die, and she, believing the lie of the serpent rather than the earlier instruction from God, shares the fruit with Adam. As a result, the first humans are expelled from the Garden of Eden and are cursed.
Though Eve is not a saint's name, the traditional name day of Adam and Eve has been celebrated on December 24 since the Middle Ages in many European countries such as Germany, Hungary, Scandinavia, Estonia, and Lithuania."