The Thinker : Location of the Original Reproductions
All told there are twenty-five castings of the enlarged version of Rodin's
The Thinker. Of these, less than ten were cast and patinated during his lifetime.
Two of these early examples can currently be found n Paris, one in the Hotel Biron, which is currently the Musee Rodin, and one that is directly over the Rodin gravesite.
One of the last Rodin-supervised casts can be found in Cleveland, Ohio, where it sits directly in front of the Cleveland Museum of Art. This cast was acquired in 1917, just after the Museum opened to the public.
The twenty remaining castings of
The Thinker were done posthumously. At least seven or eight of these were from the original series of enlargements that Rodin had begun before his death. The remainder were part of a recast edition sanctioned by Auguste Rodin and undertaken by the Musee Rodin in 1960. Rather curiously, there seems to be at least one unauthorized casting of this figure that is currently housed in Germany at the Kunsthalle Richard Kaselowsky-Haus, Bielifield.