Born in Paris, Rodin was trained in Paris and Brussels, he began to produce sculptures which, with their varying surfaces and finishes, looked like the Impressionist painters' effects of light and shade. The great "La Porte de l'Enfer" (The Gate of Hell) was commissioned for the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in 1880, and during the next 30 years Rodin was mainly engaged on the 186 figures for these bronze doors. Rodin also worked on the monument "Les Bourgeois de Calais" (1884–6, New York City, The Burghers of Calais), which was finally dedicated in 1895. Among his other works is "Le Penseur" (1904, The Thinker), in front of the Panthéon in Paris.