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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."
| | - Constantin Brancusi, quoted in Twentieth-Century Artists on Art |
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Museums and Public Art Galleries:
 Art Institute of Chicago
Art Institute of Chicago Art Explorer - Images and Text Resources
Detailed information about the artist and his works
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
Louvre Museum Graphic Art Database, Paris (in French) NEW! 
Many works on paper online
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
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
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
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
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto NEW!
Adam
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
A total of 6 sculptures on this and the following page
Ball State Museum of Art, Indiana NEW!
Victor Hugo, 1885
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
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
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
6 works online
Finnish National Gallery Art Collections, Helsinki, Finland NEW!
Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
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!
Hammer Museum, California NEW!
The Walking Man, 1905
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
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands
Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland
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
Balzac, 1892-97
Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin
Nude Woman as Sun Symbol
Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin
The Kiss (Paolo and Francesca)
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota
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 Gallery of Victoria, Australia
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
2 works online
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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Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey NEW!
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 Art Gallery, England
Studio Esseci, Italy (in Italian)
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Tate Gallery, London, UK
The Albertina Graphic Art Databank, Vienna (in German) NEW!
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid NEW!
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Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
Le bourgeois à la clé (Jean d'Aire), 1895
Victoria and Albert Museum Catalogue, London, UK
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
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Art Fund for UK Museums
5 works
Flemish Art Collection, Belgium
Pierre de Wissant, 1884-86
Flemish Art Collection Database, Belgium (in Dutch)
Joconde Database of French Museum Collections (in French)
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)
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