Le Penseur de Rodin Museum


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Le Penseur (initialement intitulé Le Poète) est un des chefs-d'œuvre emblématiques d'Auguste Rodin.Cette sculpture en bronze à patine d'un penseur, est initialement créée à Paris en 1880, en tant qu'élément de La Porte de l'Enfer de Rodin, inspirée de la Divine Comédie du XIVe siècle, du poète penseur philosophe italien Dante Alighieri.Devenue une œuvre monumentale indépendante.


Le Penseur de Rodin Museum

Among all the public outdoor sculptures on campus, the one probably most familiar to people is The Thinker (Le Penseur) by the French sculptor Auguste Rodin (1840-1917). Situated on the lawn outside Philosophy Hall, The Thinker is six feet tall without his base, which adds nearly another six feet to its overall height. Rodin began his career in the mid-1870s, following the end of the Franco.


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The Thinker (Le Penseur) (1904) in the Musée Rodin in Paris; CrisNYCa, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons . Rodin Made a Significant Reappearance with His Larger Sculptures. During the 1890s, the sculptor worked on an impressionist statue called Monument to Balzac. This odd take on a memorial statue was commissioned to honor the 19th-century.


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Auguste Delaherche (1857 - 1940) The figure of The Thinker was probably composed by Charpentier to complement the inkwell already created by Delaherche. In fact, in the catalogue for the 1895 Salon de la Société nationale des Beaux-arts, where The Thinker was exhibited for the first time, it is labelled as follows: "Pewter inkwell lid for a.


Auguste Rodin le Penseur, Camille Claudel... Biographie du sculpteur

The Thinker ( French: Le Penseur) is a bronze sculpture by Auguste Rodin, usually placed on a stone pedestal. The work depicts a nude male figure of heroic size sitting on a rock. He is seen leaning over, his right elbow placed on his left thigh, holding the weight of his chin on the back of his right hand. The pose is one of deep thought and.


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5 of 5. "Mission to Paris" is Alan Furst's 2012 thriller about a Hollywood actor named Fredric Stahl working in the city as World War II looms. In the book, Fredric dines at a landmark.


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Mourey, Gabriel. "Le Penseur de Rodin offert par souscription publique au peuple de Paris." Les Arts et la vie (May 1904): 267-270. 1927 Grappe, Georges. Catalogue du Musée Rodin. Paris, 1927: 61. 1944 Grappe, Georges. Catalogue du Musée Rodin. 5th ed. Paris, 1944: 24-25.


Auguste Rodin’s Le Penseur (The Thinker) at The Musée Rodin, Paris

Le Penseur était donc initialement à la fois un être au corps torturé, presque un damné,. (1861, musée d'Orsay, Paris) et au portrait assis de Laurent de Médicis sculpté par Michel-Ange (1526-1531, Chapelle des Médicis, Église San Lorenzo, Florence).


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The Thinker was originally called The Poet and was conceived as part of The Gates of Hell, initially a commission (1880) for a pair of bronze doors to a planned museum of decorative arts in Paris.Rodin chose for his subject Dante's Inferno from The Divine Comedy (c. 1308-21) and modeled a series of small clay figures that represented some of the poem's tormented characters.


Le Penseur de Rodin Museum

Rodin - Le Penseur, Paris, 1902 Details. Edward Steichen (1879-1973) Rodin - Le Penseur, Paris, 1902 Gum-bichromate print signed and dated in wax pencil (on the recto) 11¼ x 13½in. (28.6 x 34.3cm.) Provenance. From the artist; to Henirich Kuehn; by descent to Kuehn's grandson;


Le Penseur d'A. Rodin (MAMC, Strasbourg) Le Penseur 1904 A… Flickr

Details. Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) Le Penseur, petit modèle. signed and stamped with the foundry mark 'A. Rodin Alexis RUDIER. Fondeur. PARIS.' (on the base); with the raised signature 'A. Rodin' (on the inside of the base) bronze with green and brown patina. Height: 14 7/8 in. (37.7 cm.) Conceived in 1881-1882; this example cast by Alexis.


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Title: The Thinker (Le Penseur) Creator: Auguste Rodin Date Created: model 1880, cast 1901 Physical Dimensions: overall: 71.5 x 36.4 x 59.5 cm (28 1/8 x 14 5/16 x 23 7/16 in.) Provenance: Purchased 1903 from the artist by Mr. and Mrs. John W. Simpson, New York;[1] gift 1942 to NGA. [1] In the Musée Rodin Archives, Paris, there is a copy of a note Rodin sent to the Simpsons dated 1 September.


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Cast made by Fonderie Alexis Rudier in 1904. Transfered to the musée Rodin in 1922. Whenconceived in 1880 in its original size (approx. 70 cm) as the crowning element of The Gates of Hell, seated on the tympanum, The Thinker was entitled The Poet.He represented Dante, author of the Divine Comedy which had inspired The Gates, leaning forward to observe the circles of Hell, while meditating on.


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Œuvre de renommée mondiale, Le Penseur appartient probablement aux premières figures que Rodin modela dès 1880-1881 pour La Porte de l'Enfer, où il devait occuper le centre du tympan. Il représente à la fois Dante et Rodin, qui contemplent l'œuvre inspirée au second par le poème du premier, L'Enfer. Figuré nu, il possède une.


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[Marcelle Adam, Le Penseur, in: Gil Blas, Paris, 7 July 1904, quoted by Grunfeld, chapter 8, p. 191] Interpreted this way, 'The Thinker' was detached from his personal connection with Dante and now is seen to represent the power of thought and mental creativity more generally. 'The Thinker' not only confirms Dante´s high reputation as the.


Le Penseur Two Ways

Title: The Thinker (Le Penseur) Artist: Auguste Rodin (French, Paris 1840-1917 Meudon) Date: 1904. Culture: French. Medium: Plaster. Dimensions: Overall (with base): 70 1/2 × 55 3/4 in. (179.1 × 141.6 cm) Classification: Sculpture-Reproductions-Casts. Credit Line: Gift of André Saglio, Commissioner of Fine Arts of the French Government at.

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