To commemorate French sculptor Auguste Rodin’s 172nd birthday, Google has created a special doodle of The Thinker, his best known work.

Every muscle in his body is tense as he appears lost in thought. Created by the French sculptor Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) between 1880 and 1882, "The Thinker" is a sculpture known all over the world.

The original Thinker sits atop Rodin’s most important sculpture, The Gates of Hell (1880-1917), originally intended to serve as the main entrance for a museum of the decorative arts.

Auguste Rodin's 19th-century masterpiece The Thinker is now in display at the Winnipeg Art Gallery. The sculpture, one of several cast from the artist's moulds, arrived last week and joins the nearly ...

Every muscle in his body is tense as he appears lost in thought. Created by the French sculptor Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) between 1880 and 1882, "The Thinker" is a sculpture known all over the world.

The Thinker, which Rodin began work on in 1880, was the sculptor's first work to be exhibited in a public place. The statue was inaugurated in front of Paris's Pantheon in 1906, the museum says.

Just not quite that way. A cast of Auguste Rodin’s The Thinker (Le Penseur) in the garden of the Musée Rodin in Paris on November 12, 2015. Photo by Bertrand Guay/AFP/Getty Images.

But Rodin's "Thinker" was an unknown, nameless man with too-big feet and hands and a crooked nose, whose body looks peculiarly dented, yet muscular and sinewy. Jean Baud, a French prizefighter and ...

The original Thinker sits atop Rodin's most important sculpture, The Gates of Hell (1880-1917), originally intended to serve as the main entrance for a museum of the decorative arts.

August Rodin's The Thinker is on display at the Winnipeg Art Gallery's Skylight Gallery. (CBC) It's one of the most famous statues in the world.