Birth Anniversary: Auguste Rodin — November 12, 1840

Auguste Rodin was born in Paris on 12 November 1840, into a family with no connection to art. The Musée Rodin, in the Hôtel Biron where he kept his last studio, now holds the core of his work — The Thinker, The Kiss, the studies that show a sculptor still remaking the human figure in his seventies. Few museums are so completely one artist’s own house.