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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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Auguste Rodin Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
N.B. For the sake of readability, we have organized external links into these different tabs:
Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas NEW!
(There is a "Download" link for zooming in on some works, but confusingly this may take a while to become active)
Auguste Rodin at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
6 works online
Auguste Rodin at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
Exhibition: Camille Claudel & Rodin: Fateful Encounter
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW!
Many works online
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
8 sculptures
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. NEW!
"Artists in Depth" page for Auguste Rodin
Louvre Museum Graphic Art Database, Paris (in French) 
Many works on paper online
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW! 
Metropolitan Museum of Art Timetable of Art History
22 works online
Musée d'Orsay, Paris
Musée Rodin, Paris
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas 
Walking Man, 1905
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW!
Sculpture collection online
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Includes biographical information about the artist
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh NEW!
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW!
Includes a biography of the artist
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
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
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C. NEW!
Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
Eve
Tate Gallery, London, UK
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
Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales, Cardiff
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
Adam
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
A total of 6 sculptures on this and the following page
Ball State Museum of Art, Indiana
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
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
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
Dublin City Gallery | The Hugh Lane, Dublin, Ireland NEW!
Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome (in Italian)
Haifa Museum, Haifa, Israel
Hammer Museum, California
The Walking Man, 1905
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow, Scotland
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska
Eve
Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands
Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland
Alphabetically under "R"
Los Angeles County Museum of Art NEW!
MacKenzie Art Gallery, Saskatchewan
Magyar Nemzeti Galéria (Hungarian National Gallery), Budapest
The eternal idol, 1893
Magyar Nemzeti Galéria (Hungarian National Gallery), Budapest
Eternal spring, 1898
Magyar Nemzeti Galéria (Hungarian National Gallery), Budapest
Falling man, torso of a young man
Head of St. John the Baptist
Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas
Eve in Despair, marble, 1915
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
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
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)
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)
Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, Texas
National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
6 works online
National Museum of Art of Romania
The Bronze Age
National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo
A total of 14 works online
National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson Hole, Wyoming
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
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
Hand, ca.1886
Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, Lille, France (in French)
L'Ombre
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Pomona College Museum of Art, California
Click on "View objects by this artist"
Portland Museum of Art, Maine
Click thumbnail #9
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey
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
San Diego Museum of Art, California NEW!
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
Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark), Copenhagen
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Studio Esseci, Italy (in Italian)
Click "Immagini" to see a large image from an exhibition in Brescia
The Albertina Graphic Art Databank, Vienna (in German)
The Walters Art Museum, Maryland NEW!
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
(Images are zoomable; click on the "expand" icon below the detail image)
University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City
Valtion Taidemuseo (Finnish National Gallery), Helsinki, Finland
Valtion Taidemuseo (Finnish National Gallery), Helsinki, Finland
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
8 works online when last checked
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 American Art Museum National 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)
Articles and Reference Sites:
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 100-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
Antiques & Fine Art Magazine
John the Baptist, 1875-78
Artcyclopedia
"Who is Rodin's Thinker?"
Artcyclopedia
The Thinker, bronze, 1880
International Herald Tribune (now part of the New York Times organization)
"Saga of a Statue: The Struggles of Rodin's Balzac," article by Mary Blume
Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide
"This man is Michelangelo": Octave Mirbeau, Auguste Rodin and the Image of the Modern Sculptor
The Guardian Newspaper, UK
"Your own flesh and blood", 2006 article by Adrian Searle
The London Evening Standard
"Rodin the ladies' man", 2006 article by Brian Sewell
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