This sculpture was originally commissioned by the Musee des Arts Decoratifs.
This sculpture was originally commissioned by the Musee des Arts Decoratifs. A copy of this sculpture is located in front of the philosophy hall at Columbia University. The original was later moved in front of the Pantheon. Unlike the Monument to Balzac created by the same sculptor, this statue was originally titled the Poet. It was originally meant to represent Dante contemplating his Divine Comedy in front of the Gates of Hell, also by the same sculptor as this work. Depicting a man in an anatomically impossible pose because of wrist strain, FTP, name this work of Rodin which depicts a man in deep thought.
This sculpture was originally commissioned by the Musee des Arts Decoratifs.
The Thinker