Antonin Proust
1897
Rodin is the guy who made *The Thinker*, but this 1897 sketch shows he was just as brilliant with a pencil. It portrays Antonin Proust, a French politician and art critic who was best friends with painter Édouard Manet and helped champion modern art. The quick, scratchy lines capture the rugged texture of Proust's beard and hair, proving that Rodin studied human faces with the same obsessive detail he used for his bronze masterpieces.
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