The Walking Man (L'homme qui marche) modeled before 1900, cast before 1914 Auguste Rodin French A sculptural hybrid with a somewhat complicated history, The Walking Man was made from a cast of a torso that was probably a study for Rodin's Saint John the Baptist Preaching (1878) joined to a cast of the legs from another study for the Saint John. Rodin exhibited a plaster model of the resulting sculpture in his retrospective exhibition in the Place de l'Alma at the time of the Paris Exposition Universal of 1900. Between 1905 and 1907 he enlarged the sculpture and changed the title from A Study for Saint John the Baptist to The Walking Man. A bronze cast from the enlarged model was placed in the French embassy in Rome, then housed in the Palazzo Farnese.The Walking Man displays not only Rodin's fascination with partial figures, reminiscent of antique sculptural fragments, but also his interest in the sculptural representation of the human body in sequential motion. By showing both feet pl

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The Walking Man (L'homme qui marche) modeled before 1900, cast before 1914 Auguste Rodin French A sculptural hybrid with a somewhat complicated history, The Walking Man was made from a cast of a torso that was probably a study for Rodin's Saint John the Baptist Preaching (1878) joined to a cast of the legs from another study for the Saint John. Rodin exhibited a plaster model of the resulting sculpture in his retrospective exhibition in the Place de l'Alma at the time of the Paris Exposition Universal of 1900. Between 1905 and 1907 he enlarged the sculpture and changed the title from A Study for Saint John the Baptist to The Walking Man. A bronze cast from the enlarged model was placed in the French embassy in Rome, then housed in the Palazzo Farnese.The Walking Man displays not only Rodin's fascination with partial figures, reminiscent of antique sculptural fragments, but also his interest in the sculptural representation of the human body in sequential motion. By showing both feet pl

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