Horseman
1889
Auguste Rodin, the giant of sculpture behind *The Thinker*, traded his chisel for a brush in 1889 to create this haunting, shadowy figure of a horseman. The dark, pooling washes bleed into the paper, creating a ghostly, almost abstract form that emphasizes raw movement over precise detail. You can spot his signature and the date '1889 May' scrawled in the bottom left, proving that even masters of 3D form loved the quick, messy energy of a sketch. It looks less like a finished portrait and more like a fleeting memory of a rider galloping through a storm.
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