A bronze cast of Rodin's The Thinker, stolen earlier this week along with six other sculptures from the garden of the Singer Laren Museum near Amsterdam, has been recovered.

A casting of Rodin’s legendary sculpture called ‘The Thinker’ recently sold at auction in Paris for $11.14 million.

But not by Rodin in his lifetime. Long before the French law was codified, Rodin authorized many more than 12 bronze "originals" of many of his studio models, to cash in on their popularity.

Rodin’s thieves were after bronzeThe thieves who took seven sculptures – including a cast of Rodin’s Thinker – from the gardens of the Singer Museum in Laren appear to have been after bronze, director ...

PARIS (AFP) -- A bronze cast of Auguste Rodin’s famous sculpture “The Kiss” sold for 2.2 million euros ($2.4 million) to an American collector at an auction in Paris on Tuesday. Auction ...

A bronze cast of Auguste Rodin's famous sculpture The Kiss sold for 2.2 million euros ($2.4 million) to an American collector at an auction in Paris on Tuesday.

His breakthrough sculpture, “The Age of Bronze” (1875), a full-scale standing male nude, was so lifelike that critics accused Rodin of making a cast directly from the model.