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The Kneeling Man
The Kneeling Man
	The Museo Soumaya cast.
Artist	Auguste Rodin
Year	1888
Medium	Bronze
Location	Museo Soumaya, Mexico City

The Kneeling Man is a work originally conceived in 1888 by the French artist Auguste Rodin for his The Gates of Hell project.

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The work's arms and torso were reused for The Birth of Venus, a female version - Gates features both the male and female versions in the tympanum and the upper part of the right-hand panel.^[1] The same male figure was also used as part of The Maiden Kissed by the Ghost.^[2]

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It was cast in bronze with a brown and green patina in 1960 by the Rudier Foundry. One of these bronze casts is now in the Museo Soumaya in Mexico City.

References edit

^ (in Spanish) Museo Soumaya (2016). La puerta del Infierno. México: Fundación Carlos Slim. p. 293. ISBN 9786077805182.
^ (in Spanish) Colección Museo Soumaya vol. 2. Fundación Carlos Slim. 2015. ISBN 9786077805137.

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Media related to The Kneeling Man by Auguste Rodin at Wikimedia Commons

[1] (in Spanish) Museo Soumaya (2016). La puerta del Infierno. México: Fundación Carlos Slim. p. 293. ISBN 9786077805182.

[2] (in Spanish) Colección Museo Soumaya vol. 2. Fundación Carlos Slim. 2015. ISBN 9786077805137.

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