The Glasgow Museum in Scotland admits having lost a bronze statue of the famous French sculptor, worth 3.5 million euros. So common or scandalous? And above all, how could the museum have lost a work?

According to the museum's inventory, 1,750 objects are missing or stolen. The loss of an art object ultimately does not seem so rare, but the disappearance of a work by the famous and admired Rodin does! The famous plaster statue was purchased in 1901 from the artist before being exhibited in the open air in Kelvingrove Park in 1949. During the exhibition, the work representing one of the sculptor's Bourgeois de Calais was supposedly damaged. Since then, there has been radio silence while the statue seems to have evaporated. The Glasgow Museum can only bite its fingers because the work is certainly a replica, but also emblematic of the 19th century and worth several million euros.

If museum officials claim that the inventory lasted around twenty years, it is only today that the news is coming out. A declaration can be too shameful... In any case, it does not fail to provoke a reaction from Jérôme Blay, the director of the Rodin Committee who denounces poor management on the part of the museum.

Broken, stolen or simply lost in the reserves, the admirable statue still remains a mystery to this day and the museum hopes to find it later in the archives. To be continued…