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 12 copies made from the original plaster mold by the Musée Rodin after Rodin's death.

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (February 2011)

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.

Copies of The Thinker made during Rodin's lifetime

Location	Image	Size	Material	Date	Notes	References
National Gallery of Victoria		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 Louisiana Purchase Exhibition 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]	[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]

Later casts

Europe

• France
  • Saint-Paul de Vence
• Germany
  • Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin
  • Sächsisches Landesgymnasium Sankt Afra zu Meißen, Meissen
  • Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld
• Netherlands
  • Apollolaan, in front of the Amsterdam Hilton Hotel[27]
  • Singer Laren, Laren (badly damaged by thieves in 2007; restored and re-exhibited in 2010)
• Norway
  • National Gallery of Norway, Oslo
• Russia
  • Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow
• Serbia
  • University of Arts, Belgrade
• Switzerland
  • Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich
• Turkey
  • Sakıp Sabancı Museum, Istanbul
  • Bakırköy Psychiatric Hospital, Istanbul
• United Kingdom
  • Burrell Collection (Pollok House), Glasgow, Scotland
• Vatican City
  • Vatican Museums, Collection of Modern Religious Art

North America

• Canada
  • Montreal Museum of Fine Art, Montreal[28]
  • Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto[29]
  • MacLaren Art Centre, Barrie[30][31]
• Mexico
  • Museo Soumaya, Mexico City
• United States
  • Cantor Fitzgerald offices in World Trade Center, New York City (survived the September 11 attacks; missing afterwards)[32]
  • Columbia University, New York City
  • Maryhill Museum of Art, Goldendale[33]
  • Bal Harbour Shops, Miami[34]
  • Martin Lawrence Gallery, Las Vegas[35]
  • University of Louisville, Louisville
  • Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore
  • Rodin Museum, Philadelphia
  • Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City
  • Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena[36]
  • North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh[37]
  • Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University, Stanford[38]
  • Bodies: The Exhibition, originally Tampa (travelling; a recreation made from a plastinated human corpse posed like the original sculpture)[39]

South America

• Argentina
  • Museum of Modern Art, Buenos Aires
• Brazil
  • Ricardo Brennand Institute, Recife[40][41]
  • Lily Marinho collection, Rio de Janeiro[42]
• Chile
  • Borde Costero, Viña del Mar

Asia

• China
  • China Central Academy of Fine Arts library, Beijing
  • Guangzhou Opera House, Guangzhou
  • Shanghai Library, Shanghai
  • Changchun World Sculpture Park, Changchun
• India
  • Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati
  • Thinkers Park at Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Pondicherry
  • Nalsar University of Law, Shamirpet
• Indonesia
  • Kolese Kanisius, Jakarta
• Israel
  • RAD Data Communications, Tel Aviv
• Japan
  • The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo[43]
  • Kyoto National Museum, Kyoto[44][45]
  • Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Shizuoka[46]
• Singapore
  • OUE Bayfront, Marina Bay
  • Resorts World Sentosa, Sentosa Island
• South Korea
  • Beartree Park, Chungchongnam-do
• Taiwan
  • National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu[47]
• Vietnam
  • FPT University, Danang campus
  • FPT University, Cantho campus
  • FPT University, Quynhon campus

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Le Penseur.

• The Thinker project, Munich. Discussion of the history of the many casts of this artwork.
• Rodin: The B. Gerald Cantor Collection, a full text exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which contains material on The Thinker