Portrait of Auguste Rodin
1860–1910
Medium
Etching in brown ink
Dimensions
Sheet: 12 13/16 × 9 1/4 in. (32.5 × 23.5 cm) Plate: 9 13/16 × 6 7/8 in. (25 × 17.4 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1917
Accession Number
17.11.1
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
About the Artist
Auguste Rodin|Alphonse Legros · 1840–1917
François Auguste René Rodin (1840-1917) stands as the founder of modern sculpture, transforming the art form from academic tradition into expressive modernism. Born into a working-class Parisian family, Rodin faced early rejection, failing three times to gain admission to the prestigious École des Beaux-Arts. This setback forced him to work as a craftsman for nearly two decades, though his 1875 tr...