For which building was Auguste Rodin commissioned to create The Gates of Hell?

Auguste Rodin was commissioned to create The Gates of Hell for the Musée des Arts Décoratifs.

The planned Musée des Arts Décoratifs was intended to occupy a site in Paris, and Rodin received the commission for monumental doors in 1880. The project was inspired in large part by Dante’s Divine Comedy and became one of the central sources for many of Rodin’s later figures, including The Thinker and The Three Shades.

The museum building was never completed as originally planned, and the doors themselves remained unfinished during Rodin’s lifetime. Even so, The Gates of Hell became a vast workshop of ideas. Rodin repeatedly developed, enlarged, detached, and recast figures first conceived for the portal.

The commission is sometimes linked incorrectly to the Louvre or to the Musée Rodin because those institutions later displayed Rodin’s works. The intended destination was the projected Musée des Arts Décoratifs, not either of those museums.