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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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N.B. For the sake of readability, we have organized external links into the following different tabs:
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 (Tip: 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)  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
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 Click on "View objects by this artist"
Portland Museum of Art, Maine Click thumbnail #9
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)  Click "Immagini" to see a large image from an exhibition in Brescia
Tate Gallery, London, UK
The Albertina Graphic Art Databank, Vienna (in German) NEW! 
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid NEW! - to switch to English, scroll to the bottom of the page and click "English Version" - images are zoomable; click on the "expand" icon below the detail image - you can zoom in via the mouse scroll wheel, then click the image and drag it around
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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