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The Musée Rodin (English: Rodin Museum) of Paris, France, is an art museum that was opened in 1919, primarily dedicated to the works of the French sculptor Auguste Rodin. It has two sites: the Hôtel Biron and surrounding grounds in central Paris, as well as just outside Paris at Rodin's old home, the Villa des Brillants at Meudon, Hauts-de-Seine.
Musée Rodin, Paris 59 x 29 x 29 More images: Man with the Broken Nose [6] [7] 1863 Bronze Museo Soumaya, Mexico City 31.2 x 19 x 16.3 More images: Jeune femme et enfant [8] 1864 Bronze Musée Rodin, Paris 57.5 x 34 x 36 Jean-Baptiste Rodin, Père de l'artiste [9] [10] 1865 Bronze Musée Rodin, Paris 41 x 22.8 x 24 More images: Jeune femme ...
The Thinker (French: Le Penseur), by Auguste Rodin, is a bronze sculpture depicting a nude male figure of heroic size, seated on a large rock, leaning forward, right elbow placed upon the left thigh, back of the right hand supporting the chin in a posture evocative of deep thought and contemplation.
The Musée Rodin, Paris. [10] The Rodin Museum, Philadelphia, United States. The National Museum of Western Art in Ueno Park, Tokyo. [11] Subsequent bronzes have been distributed by the Musée Rodin to a number of locations, including: The Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich; The Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University
Auguste Rodin rented several rooms on the ground floor in which to store his sculptures. The rooms became his studio; there he worked and entertained friends among the overgrown gardens. In 1909, Rodin, at the height of his fame, began to agitate for the Hôtel Biron to become a museum of his work.
The Kiss (French: Le Baiser) is an 1882 marble sculpture by the French sculptor Auguste Rodin.. The embracing nude couple depicted in the sculpture appeared originally as part of a group of reliefs decorating Rodin's monumental bronze portal The Gates of Hell, commissioned for a planned museum of art in Paris.