Cybele c. 1890, enlarged in 1904, Musée Rodin cast 7/8 in 1987 Bronze 65 x 34 x 56 in. Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Foundation Formerly titled Study of a Seated Woman, the name Cybele, the Roman mother goddess of earth, was not given to the work until 1914. An enlarged version, exhibited at the Salon of 1905, was met with diverging opinions. Some critics condemned the incompleteness of the form as well as the roughness of the modeling, while others praised it for its Classical beauty and even compared it to figures from the Parthenon, such as the Victory of Samothrace and the Venus de Milo.