In the early 1890s, when living in Meudon, Rodin began to collect ancient works of art from Egypt, Greece and Rome, then later from the Far East. Fragments of Venuses, Greek vases and Egyptian figurines in bronze invaded the spaces in which he worked and lived, replacing the rare casts after Antique statues, traditionally present in a sculptor’s studio. As Rodin’s fame grew, the many commissions he received enabled him to purchase over 6,000 works of art between 1893 and 1917.
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Attic Red-Figure Column-Krater
Circa 470 BC
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Attic Red-Figure Kalyx Krater
mid-4th century BC
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Colossal Left Hand holding Drapery
1st century AD
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Crouching Venus Anadyomene
Late Hellenistic or Early Imperial Period
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Ephebe
3rd-2nd century BC
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Fragment of a Bas-Relief: Head of a Median Tribute-Bearer
732-705 BC
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Fragment of a False-Door Stele
Old Kingdom - 5th-4th Dynasty (circa 2500-2170 BC)
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Fragment of a Funerary Stele
3rd quarter of the 4th century BC
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Fragment of a Male Head
1st-2nd century AD ?
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Fragment of a Sunken Relief : Wall from the Tomb of Pay
18th Dynasty (circa 1539-1292 BC)
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Head of a Man
Late Period, 25th-27th Dynasty (715-404 BC)
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Kore
1st century BC
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Mourner
Mid-15th century, Bourges
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Portrait of a Scholar : Thucydidus?
69-96 AD
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Portrait of Gaius Caesar?
20 BC-AD 4
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Seated Venus, known as Agrippina
2nd century AD
