Auguste Rodin | National Gallery of Art https://www.nga.gov/artists/2251-auguste-rodin
Auguste Rodin was born in 1840, the second child and only son of Jean-Baptiste Rodin and Marie Cheffer, first-generation Parisians of modest means. Nothing in his family background or situation suggested that he might become an artist.
Paris, 1936. 1963 Elsen, Albert E. Rodin.