Auguste Rodin enjoyed a long and fruitful relationship with Great Britain, relishing the company of admiring patrons and fellow artists and exhibiting his work to laudatory reviews. Shortly before his death, he donated eighteen sculptures to the state—the only such donation he made during his lifetime. It comes as no surprise, then, that the British have honored his work in grand retrospectives, including two organized by the Arts Council of Great Britain at the Hayward Gallery in 1970 and 1986. In the fall of 2006, the Royal Academy of Arts continued the British romance with Rodin, mounting a new comprehensive exhibition. It was a fitting venue for such a show, since the Royal Academy recognized Rodin’s talent early in his career—in 1882 it became one of the first institutions to show his work. Collaborating with the Musée Rodin in Paris and the Kunsthaus Zürich, which hosted the exhibition in the spring of 2007, the Royal Academy displayed an impressive array of the artist’s work in various media.[1] Curators and distinguished Rodin scholars Antoinette Le Normand-Romain and Catherine Lampert wove a unique curatorial thread through the exhibition by giving special attention to the sculptor’s relationship with Britain; according to the exhibition...