Artist Auguste Rodin Media Bronze | Created 1878–1880 | |
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Saint John the Baptist (preaching) is a bronze sculpture, by Auguste Rodin.
After the controversy of his Age of Bronze, Rodin began modeling the larger than life figure in 1877. He showed a plaster model at the Salon of 1880.
![Saint John the Baptist (Rodin) Saint John the Baptist Rodin Wikipedia](https://alchetron.com/cdn/saint-john-the-baptist-rodin-892d660d-597a-4aac-8ac6-6c33480eefd-resize-750.jpg)
Reduced size examples were cast between 1878 and 1907. The Walking Man is a version of the figure without the head.
![Saint John the Baptist (Rodin) Saint John the Baptist Rodin Museum](https://alchetron.com/cdn/saint-john-the-baptist-rodin-6136ae38-fc9a-4d93-8e5b-381fcaaeb16-resize-750.jpeg)
Examples are in the collections of: Musée d'Orsay, Musée du Luxembourg, Musée Rodin, the Tate Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Norton Simon Museum, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, and the Glenkiln Sculpture Park.
![Saint John the Baptist (Rodin) Saint John the Baptist Rodin Museum](https://alchetron.com/cdn/saint-john-the-baptist-rodin-f12098ef-0831-4596-ac38-490f3152651-resize-750.jpeg)
![Saint John the Baptist (Rodin) Auguste Rodin Saint John the Baptist Preaching first modeled 1878](https://alchetron.com/cdn/saint-john-the-baptist-rodin-bccdc905-fd05-4ed6-ac10-1fd60b4fbcf-resize-750.jpg)
![Saint John the Baptist (Rodin) Hay Hill Gallery Auguste Rodin R56](https://alchetron.com/cdn/saint-john-the-baptist-rodin-58e6113a-ed8b-4701-9047-a217b258491-resize-750.jpeg)
![Saint John the Baptist (Rodin) wwwrodinweborgapixJocondeJohnBaptistbronze](https://alchetron.com/cdn/saint-john-the-baptist-rodin-bbeeaae7-8051-40c2-848a-be1a999a408-resize-750.jpeg)
![Saint John the Baptist (Rodin) FileSaint John the Baptist Preaching by Auguste Rodin 1880 bronze](https://alchetron.com/cdn/saint-john-the-baptist-rodin-9e3c1c3e-dfbb-4382-b184-218755270be-resize-750.jpg)
References
Saint John the Baptist (Rodin) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA