RODIN, Auguste
(b. 1840, Paris, d. 1917, Meudon)

The Gates of Hell

1880-1917
Original plaster, height 520 cm
Musée d'Orsay, Paris

Rodin was one of the most successful, prolific, and influential sculptors of the modern age, regarded during his lifetime as a genius of the caliber of Michelangelo.