Which London museum owns Auguste Rodin’s marble sculpture The Kiss?

Tate Britain owns Auguste Rodin’s marble sculpture The Kiss.

Rodin created The Kiss as an image of the lovers Paolo and Francesca, characters from Dante’s Divine Comedy. Their forbidden relationship and tragic death made them a popular subject for nineteenth-century artists, but Rodin presented the embrace with unusual physical immediacy.

The Tate’s marble version was carved between 1901 and 1904. It was commissioned by the English art collector Edward Perry Warren, who later sold it to the Tate. The work is larger than life-size and is carved from marble rather than cast in bronze.

Several versions and reproductions of The Kiss exist, so museums and collections can be confused. Tate Britain’s version is one of the best-known marbles, while other institutions hold different casts or related versions.