This architectural structure - serving as the entrance to the Rodin Museum - is called "The Meudon Gate" because it reproduces an edifice at Auguste Rodin's home in Meudon, France. The sculptor had reassembled the facade of an abandoned country house, the Chateau d'Issy, in the gardens at Meudon, filling its window niches with sculptures and placing a cast of "the Thinker" in front - an arrangement duplicated here.
Left Arch: Adam (clay 1880-81, bronze 1925).
In front of gate: The Thinker (clay 1880-81, enlarged 1902-04, bronze 1919).
Right arch: The Shade (clay 1881-86, enlarged 1901-04, bronze 1923).
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