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11 Rodin must-sees, garden first

Five of the eleven are outdoors. People finish the house, feel done and walk out past every one of them. This list starts in the garden and ends upstairs, with the location of every piece.

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11
must-sees
5
in the garden
~2h
to see them all
82
audio stories

STOP 1–5 · START HERE

The Garden

Go outside first, while the light is good. The Thinker is a short walk from the entrance, and the garden runs back to The Gates of Hell.

Three hectares · about 45 min

  1. The Thinker 01
    The Thinker Auguste Rodin Garden · near the entrance
  2. The Gates of Hell 02
    The Gates of Hell Auguste Rodin Garden
  3. The Burghers of Calais 03
    The Burghers of Calais Auguste Rodin Garden
  4. Monument to Balzac 04
    Monument to Balzac Auguste Rodin Garden
  5. Meditation (The Inner Voice) 05
    Meditation (The Inner Voice) Auguste Rodin Garden

STOP 6–8

Ground floor

Into the Hôtel Biron, the mansion where Rodin worked. The Kiss is here, cut from The Gates of Hell because it looked too happy for it.

Rooms 3–7 · about 30 min

  1. The Age of Bronze 06
    The Age of Bronze Auguste Rodin Room 3 · Ground floor
  2. The Kiss 07
    The Kiss Auguste Rodin Room 5 · Ground floor
  3. Danaïd 08
    Danaïd Auguste Rodin Room 7 · Ground floor

STOP 9–11

First floor

Upstairs: Rodin’s late work, his own art collection and the Van Gogh he owned.

Rooms 10–17 · about 30 min

  1. The Cathedral 09
    The Cathedral Auguste Rodin Room 10 · First floor
  2. Portrait of Père Tanguy 10
    Portrait of Père Tanguy Vincent van Gogh Room 12 · First floor
  3. The Walking Man 11
    The Walking Man Auguste Rodin Room 17 · First floor

BEFORE YOU GO

The list is the easy part. Here’s the rest.

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Photographs via Wikimedia Commons, by Jean-Pierre Dalbéra, Shadowgate, Beyond My Ken, Evgenii, Lomita and Miguel Hermoso Cuesta (CC BY-SA 3.0 / CC BY-SA 4.0 / CC BY 2.0 / CC0 / Public domain).

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