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Auguste Rodin
[French Sculptor, 1840-1917]
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Rodin has a modest attitude toward his art. When he finished his Balzac, which remains the incontestable point of departure for modern sculpture, he declared, "It is now that I would like to begin work."
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Original works by Auguste Rodin available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Museums and Public Art Galleries:
Art Institute of Chicago Art Explorer - Images and Text Resources
Art Institute of Chicago Collection Database NEW! 15 works by Auguste Rodin online
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas NEW! 6 works online
Auguste Rodin at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
Auguste Rodin at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan Exhibition: Camille Claudel & Rodin: Fateful Encounter
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Many works by Auguste Rodin
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia 8 sculptures
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. Many works online
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana NEW!
Auguste Rodin at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City  Honoré de Balzac, portrait bust (Zoom)
Metropolitan Museum of Art Timetable of Art History, New York City  22 works online
Musée d'Orsay, Paris NEW! Commentary on Balzac
Musée d'Orsay, Paris NEW! Commentary on Thought
Musée d'Orsay Collection Database, Paris NEW! Many works by Auguste Rodin online
Musée Rodin, Paris
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston  Sculpture collection online
Museum of Modern Art, New York City  13 works by Auguste Rodin online
Auguste Rodin at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. 41 works by Auguste Rodin
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra Study for Monument à Whistler, 1910
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra 7 works by Rodin
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa  2 sculptures and 8 drawings
Neue Pinakothek, Munich, Germany
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California
Philadelphia Museum of Art (On the zoom-in page, use the slider bar to magnify the image) Many works by Auguste Rodin online
Réunion des Musées Nationaux, France (in French)  (Click the magnifying-glass icon to zoom, then drag the corner of the window to make it larger) A total of 10 works displayed over 2 pages of search results
Rodin Museum at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany Eve
Ackland Art Museum at the University of North Carolina The Call to Arms
Ackland Art Museum at the University of North Carolina Project for a Monument to the Defense of Paris Undocumented feature: Click here to see the image at a much higher resolution.
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts
Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Japan
Armand Hammer Museum of Art at UCLA, California The Walking Man, 1905
Art Fund for UK Museums 5 works
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, British Columbia NEW! Mercury Emerging from a Cloud (Study for the Gates of Hell)
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Springtime, 1883
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia 4 sculptures online
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide NEW! A total of 6 sculptures on this and the following page
Beaverbrook Art Gallery, New Brunswick
Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University, Illinois Victor Hugo
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Maine (Zoomable) NEW! Victor Hugo, Three-Quarter View, drypoint, 1885
Canton Museum of Art, Ohio Head of Balzac
Canton Museum of Art, Ohio Maternity
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Chazen Museum of Art at the University of Wisconsin Fauness, 1884/86
Chi-Mei Museum, Taiwan (in Chinese)  Suzon
Chi-Mei Museum, Taiwan (in Chinese)  Le Baiser
Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna O Waiwhetu, New Zealand NEW! (You need to click "Yes, I accept" the copyright rules before viewing the site)
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio The Thinker The Age of Bronze
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio Sister Wendy on The Thinker, 1880-81
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. Paolo and Francesca
Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK 49 works by or related to the artist
Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire NEW!
Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
Flemish Art Collection Pierre de Wissant, 1884-86
Flemish Art Collection Database (in Dutch) 
Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome (in Italian) NEW!  L Età del bronzo, 1875-76
Haggerty Museum of Art at Marquette University, Wisconsin
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts NEW!
Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow, Scotland
Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington - Provenance Research Project 2 works online
Joconde Database of French Museum Collections (in French) 
Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands
Kunsthalle Mannheim, Germany (in German) NEW! 
Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland NEW! Alphabetically under "R"
Auguste Rodin in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
MacKenzie Art Gallery, Saskatchewan
Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, Michigan The Kiss
Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, Michigan Eve (work #7; click "next" to page down to it)
Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York 3 works
Middelheim Open-Air Museum for Sculpture, Antwerp, Belgium (in Dutch)  Balzac, 1892-97
Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin NEW! Nude Woman as Sun Symbol
Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin NEW! The Kiss (Paolo and Francesca)
Musée des Beaux Arts et d'Archéologie de Besançon, France (in French)  L'Eternel Printemps
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nice, France (in French)  L'Âge d'airain, bronze
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina (in Spanish) 
Museo Sorolla, Madrid (in Spanish)  Psyque
Museu de Arte de São Paulo, Brazil (in Portuguese) 
Museum of Fine Arts, Lyon, France (in French)  La Tentation de saint Antoine
Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, Texas
National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo
National Museums and Galleries of Wales
National Portrait Gallery, London, UK William Ernest Henley, 1884-86
New Art Gallery, Walsall, England Choose the artist in the drop-down list and click "search"
New Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen The Burghers of Calais
New Walk Museum and Art Gallery, Leicester, England NEW! Nude Study for the Monument to Balzac, bronze, 1893
Pomona College Museum of Art, California Click on "View objects by this artist"
Portland Art Museum, Oregon La Défense, 1879
Portland Museum of Art, Maine NEW! Click thumbnail #9
Rodin Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium Catalogue (in French)  11 works online
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California The Walking Man, ca.1880
Schleswig-Holstein Museums, Germany 1 work online
Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago
Smith College Museum of Art, Massachusetts The Walking Man
Southampton City Gallery, England NEW!
Studio Esseci, Italy (in Italian)  Click "Immagini" to see a large image from an exhibition in Brescia
Tate Gallery, London, UK
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam Le bourgeois à la clé (Jean d'Aire), 1895
Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal, Germany (in German) 
Walker Art Center, Minnesota
Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, Germany (mostly in German) NEW!  Frauenakt
Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, Germany (mostly in German) NEW!  Das eherne Zeitalter, 1876
Wichita State University Outdoor Sculpture Collection, Kansas La Cathedrale La Priere Grande Torse de L'Homme Qui Tombe
Yamagata Museum of Art, Japan Génie du repos éternel, 1899
Smithsonian Institution Art Inventories List of works nationwide from two sources: the Inventory of American Paintings Executed before 1914 and the Inventory of American Sculpture (only a few percent of listings have an accompanying image)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Auguste Rodin in the Art Renewal Center
Auguste Rodin in the Artchive 
Artonline
Auguste Rodin at CGFA 
Insecula
Spain Ministry of Education and Science Imagebank (in Spanish) 
WebMuseum 
Wikimedia Commons Image Database 
AICT: Art Images for College Teaching  The Burghers of Calais Monument to Balzac The Call to Arms (next page)
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German) 
Boston College Fine Arts Department
California State University WorldImages Database 
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish) 
El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish) 
Humanities Web 
Mary Ann Sullivan's Digital Imaging Project  Photographs of 5 sculptires
PBase Photo Sharing (Set the size to "original" to see images at their highest resolution)
The Athenaeum  Belgian Landscape
University of Michigan SILS Art Image Browser
USC Annenberg School for Communication
William Allen's Image Archive  Photographs from the Musée d'Orsay
Web Sites About the Artist:
Rodin-Web
Other Web Sites:
Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Foundation Foundation dedicated to bringing Rodin's works to a wider audience
NotSorry Illustrated essay about Rodin by Gregory Melle
Ohio Outdoor Sculpture Inventory
The Androom Archives 3 works
The Modernist Journals Project NEW!
The Victorian Web Portrait bust of W.E. Henley
Articles:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Auguste Rodin Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 75-word preview only. Troubleshooting
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum) Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Artcyclopedia "Who is Rodin's Thinker?"
Artcyclopedia The Thinker, bronze, 1880
International Herald Tribune "Saga of a Statue: The Struggles of Rodin's Balzac," article by Mary Blume
Time Magazine "The Old Man and the Clay", 1981 article by Robert Hughes
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