The sculpture was conceived around 1880 and used in triplicate as a part of the artist's large-scale work
The Gates of Hell. 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. ==See also==