List of The Thinker sculptures

This is a list of The Thinker sculptures made by Auguste Rodin. The Thinker, originally a part of Rodin's The Gates of Hell, exists in several versions. The original size and the later monumental size versions were both created by Rodin, and the most valuable versions are those created under his supervision. There was also a limited edition of 25 copies made from the original plaster mold by the Musée Rodin after Rodin's death.

The Thinker exists as bronze casts, exhibition plaster casts (some were painted to look like bronze patina), and original production plasters, which some consider art objects today.

Location	Size	Material	Date	Notes	References
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne	Original	Bronze	1884	Earliest bronze casting, has Florentine cap	^[1]
Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Geneva	Original	Bronze	1896		^[2]
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.	Original	Bronze	1901		^[3]
Panthéon, Latin Quarter, Paris (destroyed)	Monumental	Plaster, bronze-tinted	1904	Earliest monumental. The statue was vandalized and later scrapped.	^[4]
The Burrell Collection	Original	Bronze	1902	Bought by Mr. Burrell in 1922. Many fingerprints and marks were left by the sculptor.	^[5]^[6]
University of Louisville	Monumental	Bronze	1903	First casting by A. A. Hébrard, lost wax technique, displayed at Louisiana Purchase Exposition	^[4]^[7]
Commissioned by Max Linde in 1903. Today Detroit Institute of Arts	Monumental	Bronze	1903	First casting by Alexis Rudier, sand casting, four days younger than Louisville copy, publicly displayed at Leipzig and Berlin	^[8]^[9]
Metropolitan Museum, New York	Monumental	Plaster, bronze-tinted	1904	Sent to the Louisiana Purchase Exhibition in St. Louis to replace the bronze version	^[4]
Musée Rodin, Paris	Monumental	Bronze	1904	Installed outside Paris Panthéon in 1906, moved to Musée Rodin garden in 1922	^[10]
Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek	Monumental	Bronze	1904	the "third Hébrard copy"	^[11]^[4]
Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden	Monumental	Plaster	1904	acquired by museum in October 1904	^[4]
National Museum, Poznań	Monumental	Plaster	1904	acquired in January 1905	^[4]^[12]
Strasbourg Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art	Monumental	Plaster	1904	purchased from the artist in 1907	^[13]
Legion of Honor, San Francisco	Monumental	Bronze	1904	Alexis Rudier cast, purchased in 1915, donated to San Francisco in 1922	^[14]
Private collection, Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts	Original	Bronze	1906	made for Ralph Pulitzer, sold for $15.3 million in 2013	^{[citation needed]}
Laeken Cemetery, Brussels	Monumental	Bronze	1906	Alexis Rudier cast, installed on the grave of Jef Dillen in 1927	^[4]^[15]^[16]
Ca' Pesaro, Venice	Monumental	Plaster, bronze-tinted	1907	purchased at the 1907 Biennale	^[17]
Congressional Plaza, Buenos Aires	Monumental	Bronze	1907	Purchased by the museum director to Auguste Rodin, one of the three sculptures cast in the original mold and signed by him	^[18]^[19]^[20]
Waldemarsudde, Sweden	Monumental	Bronze	1908	Alexis Rudier cast, for Prince Eugen of Norway and Sweden	^[21]
Private collection	Original	Bronze	1916	sold for $11.8 million in 2010	^[22]^[23]
Rodin's tomb, Meudon	Monumental	Bronze	1916	Alexis Rudier cast, placed at the grave when his wife died	^[4]
Cleveland Museum of Art	Monumental	Bronze	1916	Alexis Rudier cast, purchased 1916, damaged in 1970 and remains unrepaired. According to police, the perpetrators were a faction of the Weathermen, possibly the same individuals killed in a bomb-making accident in New York City,^[11] although police never charged anyone in the bombing.	^[11]^[24]^[25]
Musée Rodin at Meudon	Monumental	Plaster, bronze-tinted	1916	the museum has several plaster casts in different sizes and of different ages	^[26]

List of The Thinker sculptures

Copies of The Thinker made during Rodin's lifetime

Later casts

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