The Thinker modeled ca. 1880, cast ca. 1910 Auguste Rodin French The Thinker was made to sit over the lintel of Rodins monumental bronze doorway, The Gates of Hell, contemplating the fate of the damned. Independent bronzes of The Thinker became popular, especially among American patrons. Thomas Fortune Ryan, principal founder of the Rodin collection at The Met, commissioned this cast from the sculptors studio. In a real sense, The Thinker is Rodin. Brutishly muscled yet engrossed in thought, coiled in tension yet loose in repose, the sculpture, according to one early twentieth-century critic, embodies both "dream and action.". The Thinker. Auguste Rodin (French, Paris 1840-1917 Meudon). French. modeled ca. 1880, cast ca. 1910. Bronze. Sculpture-Bronze
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