Auguste Rodin: The Thinker Sculpture

$245.00 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Bronze Statue, Fine Art Sculpture Our scaled reproduction in hand-patinated bonded bronze was scanned from a bronze of The Thinker in The Met collection, which was cast about 1910 from an original 19th-century model by Auguste Rodin (French, 1840–1917). Rodin's first government commission was for a monumental portal covered with sculptural reliefs for a Paris museum. He proposed a vast composition based loosely on Dante's Divine Comedy , but the work remained unfinished. The artist later began to extract…