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Auguste Rodin (French, 1840–1917)
Jean D’Aire, Second Maquette, modeled 1885–86
Musée Rodin cast 1/12 in 1970
Bronze; Susse Foundry
Lent by Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Foundation
Endnotes:
1 Information about the Cantors’ philanthropy, particularly in regard to Rodin, can be found at the Cantor Foundation’s website: https://
cantorfoundation.org/b-gerald-cantor-1916-1996/
2 Ibid.
3 See https://cantorfoundation.org/resources/reductions-and-enlargements/
4 Exhibition didactic panel “IN RODIN’S STUDIO”
5 http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/a/rodin-working-methods/ This web page from the
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, offers interesting details of Rodin’s process, including a link to the lost wax method of bronze casting.
6 Paradoxically, The Gates of Hell was designed for a museum that was never built. A railroad station, the Gare d’Orsay, was built on the spot
instead. But in 1987 the railway station was replaced by a museum, the Musée d’Orsay.
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