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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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 Art Institute of Chicago Art Explorer - Images and Text Resources
Art Institute of Chicago Collection Database
15 works by Auguste Rodin online
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
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
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
Commentary on Balzac
Musée d'Orsay, Paris
Commentary on Thought
Musée d'Orsay Collection Database, Paris
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, Ontario
2 sculptures and 8 drawings
Neue Pinakothek, Munich, Germany
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California
Philadelphia Museum of Art
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Many works by Auguste Rodin online
Réunion des Musées Nationaux, France (in French) 
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
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Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts
Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Japan
Armand Hammer Museum of Art at UCLA, California NEW!
The Walking Man, 1905
Art Fund for UK Museums
5 works
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, British Columbia
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
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)
Victor Hugo, Three-Quarter View, drypoint, 1885
Brooklyn Museum, New York City NEW!
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!
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
Finnish National Gallery Art Collections, Helsinki, Finland 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)
L Età del bronzo, 1875-76
Haggerty Museum of Art at Marquette University, Wisconsin
Haifa Museum, Haifa, Israel NEW!
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
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)
Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland
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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
Balzac, 1892-97
Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin
Nude Woman as Sun Symbol
Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin
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 Lyon, France (in French)
La Tentation de saint Antoine
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nice, France (in French)
L'Âge d'airain, bronze
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Marseilles, France (in French) NEW!
La Méditation
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)
Museu Nacional de Belas Artes, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (in Portuguese) NEW!
Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, Texas
National Museum of Art of Romania NEW!
The Bronze Age
National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo
National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson Hole, Wyoming
National Museums and Galleries of Wales
National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
William Ernest Henley, 1884-86
New Art Gallery, Walsall, England
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New Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen
The Burghers of Calais
New Walk Museum and Art Gallery, Leicester, England
Nude Study for the Monument to Balzac, bronze, 1893
Pomona College Museum of Art, California
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Portland Museum of Art, Maine
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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
Studio Esseci, Italy (in Italian)
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Tate Gallery, London, UK
The Walters Art Museum, Maryland NEW!
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid NEW!
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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)
Frauenakt
Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, Germany (mostly in German)
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
Spain Ministry of Education and Science Imagebank (in Spanish)
WebMuseum 
Wikimedia Commons Image Database
World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)
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)
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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
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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
The Victorian Web
Portrait bust of W.E. Henley
Articles:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Auguste Rodin
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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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