Rodin, Auguste (1840-1917) Le Penseur (The Thinker) 1903 Bronze, 189 x 98 x 140 cm Musée Rodin, Paris Created in 1880 in its original size, approximately 70 cm, to adorn the tympanum of The Gates of Hell, The Thinker was then…
Le Penseur (1903)
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Adam (1880-1881)
Rodin, Auguste (1840-1917) Adam modeled 1880 or 1881, cast 1910 Bronze, 194 × 77.2 × 82.6 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Auguste Rodin’s first commission from the French government, The Gates of Hell, was intended to be the portal…
Eve (1881)
Rodin, Auguste (1840-1917) Eve modeled 1881, cast 1910 Bronze, 174 × 52.1 × 59.7 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Rodin intended Eve and the towering Adam to flank his monumental bronze doorway, The Gates of Hell. There, the biblical…
L’Âge d’airain (1876)
Rodin, Auguste (1840-1917) L’Âge d’airain (The Age of Bronze) modeled 1876, cast c.1906 Bronze, 182.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Rodin’s breakout sculpture, The Age of Bronze caused a critical scandal for its extreme naturalism and ambiguous subject matter.…
Honoré de Balzac (1891)
Rodin, Auguste (1840-1917) Honoré de Balzac 1891 Terracotta, 23.5 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York In 1891, the Société des Gens de Lettres commissioned Rodin to create a monument to Balzac, who had died in 1850, for the Palais-Royal in…
Le Baiser (c.1882)
Rodin, Auguste (1840-1917) Le Baiser (The Kiss) c.1882 Marble, 181.5 × 112.5 × 117 cm Musée Rodin, Paris Commissioned by the French state in 1888, carved between 1888 and 1898. Joined the collections of the Musée du Luxembourg in 1901; transferred…
Rose Beuret (c.1898)
Rodin, Auguste (1840-1917) Rose Beuret c.1898 Marble, 51.5 x 41 x 38 cm Musée Rodin, Paris See also: • Rose Beuret (1844-1917)
Musée Camille Claudel (Nogent-sur-Seine)
Established: 2017 Location: 10 Rue Gustave Flaubert, 10400 Nogent-sur-Seine, France Architect: Adelfo Scaranello Website: https://www.museecamilleclaudel.fr/fr/ Collection: • Claudel, Camille (1864-1943): Aurore (c.1900) • Claudel, Camille (1864-1943): Auguste Rodin (c.1884-85) • Claudel, Camille (1864-1943): Femme accroupie (c.1884-85) • Claudel, Camille (1864-1943):…
Musée Jacquemart-André (Paris)
Opened: 1913 Address: 158 Bd Haussmann, 75008 Paris, France Website: https://www.musee-jacquemart-andre.com/en Collection: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z See also:…
Galleria Estense (Modena)
Founded: 1884 Opened: 1894 Address: Largo Porta Sant’Agostino 337, 41121 Modena, Italia Website: https://gallerie-estensi.beniculturali.it/ Collection: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y…