The Athlete is a 1901-1904 black-patina bronze sculpture by the French artist Auguste Rodin It measures 39,4 × 27,5 × 24,3 cm.
Development The model for it was Samuel Stockton White III, a member of the gymnastics teams at Princeton University and the University of Cambridge.Museo Soumaya. Fundación Carlos Slim, México, 2015, p. 139. White recalled:
Similar works During the same period Rodin also produced The American Athlete, with more exaggerated musculature and its head turned to the right. He presented both works to their model. Despite several variants, they are both lesser-known works of Rodin. Balius iJuli, Ramón (Junio de 2009). «El atleta de Auguste Rodin». Apunts Med Esport.
Another version of this bronze called "The Athlete" (1901-4, cast 1959), with the head turned to the left, is preserved at The Kreeger Museum in Washington D.C. It measures 18 x 13 x 12 1/2 inches (45,7 x 33,0 x 31,7 cm).
See also List of sculptures by Auguste Rodin
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