The Athlete (Rodin)

Sculpture by Auguste Rodin

The Athlete

Artist| Auguste Rodin
Year| 1901 to 1904

The Athlete is a 1901-1904 black-patina bronze sculpture by the French artist Auguste Rodin[1] It measures 39,4 × 27,5 × 24,3 cm.[2]

## Development

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The model for it was Samuel Stockton White III,[3] a member of the gymnastics teams at Princeton University and the University of Cambridge.[4] White recalled:

> ...he made me come and go from his studio so as to see me from different angles. Finally he asked me to adopt a natural posture and to place myself as I liked. I sat on a chair, in the most simple and natural position, resting my arms on my legs ... Rodin liked that position and immediately began to work ... with an infinite sense of detail

## Similar works

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During the same period Rodin also produced The American Athlete, with more exaggerated musculature and its head turned to the right. He presented both works to their model. Despite several variants, they are both lesser-known works of Rodin.[5]

Another version of this bronze called "The Athlete" (1901-4, cast 1959), with the head turned to the left, is preserved at The Kreeger Museum in Washington D.C. It measures 18 x 13 x 12 1/2 inches (45,7 x 33,0 x 31,7 cm).[6]

## See also

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* List of sculptures by Auguste Rodin

## References

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1. ^ "The American Athlete". Philadelphia: Rodin Museum. Retrieved 2017-11-17.
2. ^ [ reference needed]
3. ^ "Samuel Stockton White, III". geni_family_tree. 2021-05-07. Retrieved 2024-03-12.
4. ^ Museo Soumaya. Fundación Carlos Slim, México, 2015, p. 139.
5. ^ (in Spanish) Balius iJuli, Ramón (Junio de 2009). «El atleta de Auguste Rodin». Apunts Med Esport.
6. ^ "Permanent Collection | The Kreeger Museum : The Athlete - Rodin". www.kreegermuseum.org. Retrieved 2024-03-12.

## External links

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* Media related to The Athlete by Auguste Rodin at Wikimedia Commons

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Works|

* List of sculptures
* Man with the Broken Nose (1863)
* Alsatian Orphan (1871)
* Suzon (1872–73)
* The Age of Bronze (1876)
* La Defense (1879)
* The Maiden Kissed by the Ghost (1880)
* The Shade (1880)
* The Gates of Hell (1880/1917)
* The Thinker (1880, locations)
* Adam (1880–81)
* Eve (1881)
* Crouching Woman (1880–1882)
* Saint John the Baptist (1880/1907)
* Ugolino and His Sons (1881)
* The Kiss (1882)
* I Am Beautiful (1882)
* The Falling Man (1882)
* Jules Dalou (1883)
* Bust of Maurice Haquette (1883)
* Bust of Victor Hugo (1883)
* Eternal Springtime (1884)
* Torso of Adele (c. 1884)
* The Burghers of Calais (1884–1889)
* Head of Camille Claudel (1884/1911)
* The Prodigal Son (1885)
* Mask of a Weeping Woman (1885)
* The Martyr (1885)
* Psyche Looking at Love (1885)
* Eustache de Saint Pierre (1885–86)
* Jean d'Aire (1885–86)
* Jean de Fiennes (1885–86)
* Avarice and Lust (1885–1887)
* Damned Women (1885–1890)
* The Old Tree (1885)
* Paolo and Francesca (1885)
* Young Mother (1885)
* Young Mother in the Grotto (1885)
* Young Woman with a Serpent (c. 1885)
* The Three Shades (1886)
* Meditation (1886)
* Fugitive Love (1886–87)
* Ovid's Metamorphoses (1886–1889)
* Pierre de Wiessant (1887)
* Head of Saint John the Baptist (1887)
* The Sirens (1887)
* Polyphemus (1888)
* Standing Mercury (1888)
* The Kneeling Man (1888)
* Adonis Awakens (1889)
* Andromeda (1889)
* Glaucus (1889)
* Kneeling Female Faun (1889)
* The Succubus (1889)
* Despair (c. 1890)
* Brother and Sister (1890)
* Danaid (1890)
* Cybele (1890/1904)
* Monument to Balzac (1892–1897)
* Balzac in the Robe of a Dominican Monk (1892)
* Youth Triumphant (c. 1894)
* Octave Mirdeau (1895)
* Iris, Messenger of the Gods (c. 1895)
* Bacchantes Embracing (c. 1896)
* The Spirit of Eternal Repose (1898–99)
* Illusions Received by the Earth (pre-1900)
* The Athlete (1901–1904)
* The Death of Adonis (1903–1906)
* Adam and Eve (1905)
* The Walking Man (1907)
* The Cathedral (1908)
* The Prayer (1909)
* Standing Female Faun (1910)

Museums|

* Musée Rodin (Hôtel Biron), Paris
* Rodin Museum, Philadelphia
* Museu Rodin Bahia, Salvador
* Plateau (closed)

People|

* Camille Claudel

Depictions|

* 1888–89 Claudel bust
* 1909 Bourdelle bust
* Rodin — The Thinker (1902 photograph)
* Camille Claudel (1988 film)
* Camille Claudel (2003 musical)
* Camille Claudel 1915 (2013 film)
* Rodin (2017 film)

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* Rodin (crater)

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