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| | Auguste Rodin (18401917) | Special Topics Page | Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | Rodin's commission set a date in 1885 for the delivery of the door, but the work was still unfinished at that time, and in fact The Gates was never to be cast in bronze during the sculptor's lifetime. |
 | | Rodin proposed that the monument include all six men and supplied a maquette, or sketch model, of the six that won the commission, which was signed on January 28, 1885. |
 | | Rodin also modeled several versions of the full figure, some with heads, some without, some wearing monk's robes, some in contemporary dress, and some wearing nothing at all, before settling on a dressing gown of the kind that is known to have been the author's preferred working costume. |
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