The Thinker

 What Are You Thinking?
What was Rodin thinking 172 years ago?

Auguste Rodin born November 12, 1840
born 172 years ago today

"The Thinker" (Le Penseur in French) is a bronze sculpture on marble pedestal by Auguste Rodin, whose first cast, of 1902, is now in the Musée Rodin in Paris.

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Rodin's Thinker is perhaps his best known monumental work, first conceived circa 1880–1881 as a depiction of poet Dante. The image evolved until it no longer represented Dante, but all poets or creators.

The Thinker

Auguste Rodin

Birth name

François-Auguste-René Rodin

Born(1840-11-12)12 November 1840
Paris Died17 November 1917(1917-11-17) (aged 77)Meudon, Île-de-France NationalityFrench FieldSculpture, drawing WorksThe Age of Bronze (L'age d'airain), 1877
The Walking Man (L'homme qui marche), 1877–78
The Burghers of Calais (Les Bourgeois de Calais), 1889
The Kiss, 1889
The Thinker (Le Penseur), 1902 AwardsLégion d'Honneur