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Auguste Rodin François Auguste René Rodin (12 November 184017 November 1917) was a French sculptor, generally considered the founder of modern sculpture. He was schooled traditionally and took a craftsman-like approach to his work. Rodin possessed a uniqu ...
. The listing follows the books ''Rodin, Vie et Oeuvre'' and ''Rodin''.


Sculptures


Museums

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Albertinum The Albertinum () is a modern art museum. The sandstone-clad Renaissance Revival building is located on Brühl's Terrace in the historic center of Dresden, Germany. It is named after King Albert of Saxony. The Albertinum hosts the New Masters G ...
, Dresden * Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth *
Art Institute of Chicago The Art Institute of Chicago in Chicago's Grant Park, founded in 1879, is one of the oldest and largest art museums in the world. Recognized for its curatorial efforts and popularity among visitors, the museum hosts approximately 1.5 mill ...
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Brooklyn Museum The Brooklyn Museum is an art museum located in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. At , the museum is New York City's second largest and contains an art collection with around 1.5 million objects. Located near the Prospect Heights, Crown H ...
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Calouste Gulbenkian Museum The Calouste Gulbenkian Museum houses one of the world's most important private art collections. It includes works from Ancient Egypt to the early 20th century, spanning the arts of the Islamic World, China and Japan, as well as the French de ...
, Lisbon * Cantor Arts Center, Stanford * Cleveland Museum of Art * Dallas Museum of Art *
Fin-de-Siècle Museum The Fin-de-Siècle Museum (french: Musée Fin-de-Siècle, nl, Fin-de-Siècle Museum, "Museum of the Turn of the Century") is a museum in Brussels, Belgium. It is dedicated to the full spectrum of the arts of the period between 1884, when the ...
, Brussels * Fondation Bemberg, Toulouse *
Jardin des Serres d'Auteuil The Jardin des Serres d'Auteuil () is a botanical garden set within a major greenhouse complex located at the southern edge of the Bois de Boulogne in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, 16th arrondissement, with entry at 1 avenue Gordon-Bennett, P ...
, Paris * Kunsthaus Zürich *
Legion of Honor (museum) The Legion of Honor, formally known as the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, is an art museum in San Francisco, California. Located in Lincoln Park, the Legion of Honor is a component of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, which also ...
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Los Angeles County Museum of Art The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) is an art museum located on Wilshire Boulevard in the Miracle Mile, Los Angeles, California, Miracle Mile vicinity of Los Angeles. LACMA is on Museum Row, adjacent to the La Brea Tar Pits (George C. Pa ...
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Maryhill Museum of Art Maryhill Museum of Art is a small museum with an eclectic collection, located near what is now the community of Maryhill in the U.S. state of Washington. The museum is situated on a bluff overlooking the eastern end of the Columbia River Gorge. T ...
, State of Washington *
Metropolitan Museum of Art The Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York City, colloquially "the Met", is the largest art museum in the Americas. Its permanent collection contains over two million works, divided among 17 curatorial departments. The main building at 1000 ...
, New York City * Musée d'arts de Nantes *
Musée d'Orsay The Musée d'Orsay ( , , ) ( en, Orsay Museum) is a museum in Paris, France, on the Left Bank of the Seine. It is housed in the former Gare d'Orsay, a Beaux-Arts railway station built between 1898 and 1900. The museum holds mainly French art ...
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Musée de l'Orangerie The Musée de l'Orangerie ( en, Orangery Museum) is an art gallery of impressionist and post-impressionist paintings located in the west corner of the Tuileries Garden next to the Place de la Concorde in Paris. The museum is most famous as the pe ...
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Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Angers The Musée des beaux-arts d'Angers is a museum of art located in a mansion, the "logis Barrault", place Saint-Éloi near the historic city of Angers. Building The museum is part of the Toussaint complex, which includes the garden of Fine Arts, ...
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Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon The Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon is a museum of fine arts opened in 1787 in Dijon, France. It is one of the main and oldest museums of France. It is located in the historic city centre of Dijon and housed in the former ducal palace which was ...
* Musée du Luxembourg *
Musée Fabre The Musée Fabre is a museum in the southern French city of Montpellier, capital of the Hérault ''département''. The museum was founded by François-Xavier Fabre, a Montpellier painter, in 1825. Beginning in 2003, the museum underwent a 61.2 m ...
, Montpellier * Musée Rodin, Paris *
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (Buenos Aires) The Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes ("National Museum of Fine Arts") is an Argentine art museum in Buenos Aires, located in the Recoleta section of the city. The Museum inaugurated a branch in Neuquén in 2004. The museum hosts works by Goya, Remb ...
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Museum of Fine Arts Bern The Museum of Fine Arts Bern (German: ''Kunstmuseum Bern''), established in 1879 in Bern, is the museum of fine arts of the Switzerland#Federal City, de facto capital of Switzerland. Its holdings run from the Middle Ages to the present. It houses ...
* Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon *
Museum of Fine Arts, Reims The Museum of Fine Arts (french: Musée des beaux-arts) is a fine arts museum in Reims, France. History Antoine Ferrand de Monthelon, founder of the school of drawings, bequeaths in 1752 his collection to the city of Reims. Organizer and first c ...
* National Gallery (Berlin) *
National Gallery of Art The National Gallery of Art, and its attached Sculpture Garden, is a national art museum in Washington, D.C., United States, located on the National Mall, between 3rd and 9th Streets, at Constitution Avenue NW. Open to the public and free of char ...
, Washington * National Museum in Warsaw * National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo * National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo * Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen * Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille * Petit Palais, Paris *
Philadelphia Museum of Art The Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMoA) is an art museum originally chartered in 1876 for the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia. The main museum building was completed in 1928 on Fairmount, a hill located at the northwest end of the Benjamin Fr ...
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Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo The ''Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo'' (Portuguese for "pinacotheca (picture gallery) of the state of São Paulo") is one of the most important art museums in Brazil. History The museum is housed in a 1900 building in Jardim da Luz, Downto ...
* Portland Museum of Art * Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp *
São Paulo Museum of Art The São Paulo Museum of Art ( pt, Museu de Arte de São Paulo, or ') is an art museum located on Paulista Avenue in the city of São Paulo, Brazil. It is well known for its headquarters, a 1968 concrete and glass structure designed by Lina Bo B ...
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Soumaya Museum The Museo Soumaya is a private museum in Mexico City and a non-profit cultural institution with two museum buildings in Mexico City — Plaza Carso and Plaza Loreto. It has over 66,000 works from 30 centuries of art including sculptures from Pre-H ...
, Mexico City * Tuileries Garden, Paris


Media

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Bronze Bronze is an alloy consisting primarily of copper, commonly with about 12–12.5% tin and often with the addition of other metals (including aluminium, manganese, nickel, or zinc) and sometimes non-metals, such as phosphorus, or metalloids such ...
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Marble Marble is a metamorphic rock composed of recrystallized carbonate minerals, most commonly calcite or Dolomite (mineral), dolomite. Marble is typically not Foliation (geology), foliated (layered), although there are exceptions. In geology, the ...
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Plaster Plaster is a building material used for the protective or decorative coating of walls and ceilings and for Molding (decorative), moulding and casting decorative elements. In English, "plaster" usually means a material used for the interiors of ...
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Polychrome Polychrome is the "practice of decorating architectural elements, sculpture, etc., in a variety of colors." The term is used to refer to certain styles of architecture, pottery or sculpture in multiple colors. Ancient Egypt Colossal statu ...


See also

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Man with the Broken Nose ''Man with the Broken Nose'' is a sculpture by Auguste Rodin created between 1863 and 1864 and approved by the Salon in 1875. It is considered the first by Rodin in which life is represented over the grace pervading the academic circles and aes ...
'' (1863) * '' Alsatian Orphan'' (1871) * '' Suzon'' (1872–73) * '' The Age of Bronze'' (1876) * ''
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'' (1879) * ''
The Maiden Kissed by the Ghost ''The Maiden Kissed by the Ghost'' (known by the artist as ''Le baiser du fantôme et la demoiselle'' or ''Le Rêve'' ) is an 1880 sculpture by the French artist Auguste Rodin. It was first exhibited at his fourteenth exhibition, hosted by the N ...
'' (1880) * ''
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'' (1880) * '' The Gates of Hell'' (1880/1917) * ''
The Thinker ''The Thinker'' (french: Le Penseur) is a bronze sculpture by Auguste Rodin François Auguste René Rodin (12 November 184017 November 1917) was a French sculptor, generally considered the founder of modern sculpture. He was schooled tradi ...
'' (1880, locations) * ''
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'' (1880–81) * ''
Eve Eve (; ; ar, حَوَّاء, Ḥawwāʾ; el, Εὕα, Heúa; la, Eva, Heva; Syriac: romanized: ) is a figure in the Book of Genesis in the Hebrew Bible. According to the origin story, "Creation myths are symbolic stories describing how the ...
'' (1881) * ''
Crouching Woman ''Crouching Woman'' is a bronze sculpture by Auguste Rodin. Versions Originally modeled in 1880–1882, and enlarged in 1907–1911, it was cast in 1962. It is in the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. The Portland Art Museum has a ...
'' (1880–1882) * '' Saint John the Baptist'' (1880/1907) * '' Ugolino and His Sons'' (1881) * '' The Kiss'' (1882) * ''
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'' (1882) * '' The Falling Man'' (1882) * '' Jules Dalou'' (1883) * '' Bust of Maurice Haquette'' (1883) * '' Bust of Victor Hugo'' (1883) * ''
Eternal Springtime ''Eternal Springtime'' (french: L'Éternel Printemps) is a c. 1884 sculpture by the French artist Auguste Rodin, depicting a pair of lovers. It was created at the same time as ''The Gates of Hell'' and originally intended to be part of it. ...
'' (1884) * '' Torso of Adele'' (c. 1884) * '' The Burghers of Calais'' (1884–1889) * '' Head of Camille Claudel'' (1884/1911) * ''
The Prodigal Son The Parable of the Prodigal Son is a parable of Jesus from the Bible. The Prodigal Son or Prodigal Son may also refer to: Film * ''L'Enfant prodigue'' (1907 film) (The Prodigal Son), by Michel Carré, based on his play * , a short silent film b ...
'' (1885) * ''
Mask of a Weeping Woman ''Mask of a Weeping Woman'' is a sculpture by Auguste Rodin, initially produced as a pair with ''Weeping Woman'' for the first version of his ''The Gates of Hell'' in 1885. The two pieces were intended to appear on the centre of each panel. They ...
'' (1885) * '' The Martyr'' (1885) * '' Psyche Looking at Love'' (1885) * ''
Eustache de Saint Pierre Eustache de Saint Pierre, by Jean-Simon Berthélemy Eustache de Saint Pierre is the best-known figure of the group of six known as The Burghers of Calais, the first to volunteer and surrender, wearing "a shirt and a rope around his neck" to the ...
'' (1885–86) * ''
Jean d'Aire ''Jean d'Aire'' is a sculpture by the French artist Auguste Rodin, first conceived around 1885 as part of the planning for his group ''The Burghers of Calais''. After the first group modello, he made individual studies of each figure. The firs ...
'' (1885–86) * ''
Jean de Fiennes ''Jean de Fiennes'' is a sculpture by the French artist Auguste Rodin, first produced between 1885 and 1886. A bronze cast of it is now in the Museo Soumaya in Mexico City. Burghers of Calais It is an individual nude modello for his group ''The ...
'' (1885–86) * ''
Avarice and Lust ''Avarice and Lust'' is a sculpture by France, French artist Auguste Rodin, conceived between 1885 and 1887, representing two of the seven capital sins and is part of his sculptural group ''The Gates of Hell'', where it can be found in the lower ...
'' (1885–1887) * '' Damned Women'' (1885–1890) * ''
The Old Tree ''The Old Tree'' is a plaster sculpture by the French artist Auguste Rodin, originally conceived as part of his ''The Gates of Hell'' project. ''La puerta del infierno'', México, Fundación Carlos Slim, 2016. Work Rodin produced it in 1885, onl ...
'' (1885) * ''
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'' (1885) * '' Young Mother'' (1885) * ''
Young Mother in the Grotto ''Young Mother in the Grotto'' or ''Woman and Love'' is a sculpture by Auguste Rodin, conceived in plaster around 1885. It was first exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1885. John Tweed was very close to Rodin and ''Young Mother'' was a strong infl ...
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Young Woman with a Serpent ''Young Woman with a Serpent'' (french: Jeune Fille au Serpent) is a c. 1885 sculpture by Auguste Rodin, realised in several media. The artist later used the figure in his 1905 '' Adam and Eve''. Stolen bronze cast A 1979 bronze cast of the work ...
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The Three Shades ''The Three Shades'' (''Les Trois Ombres'') is a sculptural group produced in plaster by Auguste Rodin in 1886 for his ''The Gates of Hell''. He made several individual studies for the ''Shades'' before finally deciding to put them together as th ...
'' (1886) * ''
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'' (1886) * '' Fugitive Love'' (1886–87) * ''
Ovid's Metamorphoses The ''Metamorphoses'' ( la, Metamorphōsēs, from grc, μεταμορφώσεις: "Transformations") is a Latin narrative poem from 8 CE by the Roman poet Ovid. It is considered his ''magnum opus''. The poem chronicles the history of the wo ...
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Pierre de Wiessant ''Pierre de Wissant'' is a bronze sculpture by French artist Auguste Rodin, part of his sculptural group ''The Burghers of Calais''. This sculpture represents one of the six burghers who, according to Jean Froissart Froissart, Jean, ''Chronicles ...
'' (1887) * '' Head of Saint John the Baptist'' (1887) * '' The Sirens'' (1887) * ''
Polyphemus Polyphemus (; grc-gre, Πολύφημος, Polyphēmos, ; la, Polyphēmus ) is the one-eyed giant son of Poseidon and Thoosa in Greek mythology, one of the Cyclopes described in Homer's ''Odyssey''. His name means "abounding in songs and lege ...
'' (1888) * '' Standing Mercury'' (1888) * ''
The Kneeling Man ''The Kneeling Man'' is a work originally conceived in 1888 by the French artist Auguste Rodin for his ''The Gates of Hell'' project. Reuse The work's arms and torso were reused for ''The Birth of Venus'', a female version - ''Gates'' features ...
'' (1888) * '' Adonis Awakens'' (1889) * '' Andromeda'' (1889) * '' Glaucus'' (1889) * '' Kneeling Female Faun'' (1889) * '' The Succubus'' (1889) * '' Despair'' (c. 1890) * '' Brother and Sister'' (1890) * '' Danaid'' (1890) * '' Cybele'' (1890/1904) * '' Monument to Balzac'' (1892–1897) * ''
Balzac in the Robe of a Dominican Monk ''Balzac in the Robe of a Dominican Monk'' is a bronze sculpture by French artist Auguste Rodin, one of the studies made in preparation to the Monument to Balzac, a tribute to novelist Honoré de Balzac commissioned by the Society of Men of Le ...
'' (1892) * '' Youth Triumphant'' (c. 1894) * '' Octave Mirdeau'' (1895) * ''
Iris, Messenger of the Gods ''Iris, Messenger of the Gods'' (French: "Iris, messagère des Dieux") (sometimes known as ''Flying Figure'', or ''Eternal Tunnel'') is a bronze sculpture by Auguste Rodin. A plaster model, created between 1891 and 1894, was cast in bronze by ...
'' (c.1895) * '' Bacchantes Embracing'' (c. 1896) * '' The Spirit of Eternal Repose'' (1898–99) * '' Illusions Received by the Earth'' (pre-1900) * '' The Athlete'' (1901–1904) * '' The Death of Adonis'' (1903–1906) * '' Adam and Eve'' (1905) * '' The Walking Man'' (1907) * '' The Cathedral'' (1908) * '' The Prayer'' (1909) * '' Standing Female Faun'' (1910)


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