Works by Auguste Rodin (1840–1917) present various stages in the oeuvre of the greatest sculptor of his time. The Age of Bronze (circa 1877) is a plaster cast that Rodin presented to the St Petersburg Academy of Arts in 1914. The sculptures Eternal Spring (after 1897), Dreams (Poet and Muse) (circa 1905), Rome and Juliet (1905) and Cupid and Psyche (1905) have been executed in marble. The Portrait of Varvara Yeliseyeva (1906) was commissioned by her husband, Sergei Yeliseyev, a member of the prominent merchant family.
