Rodin was a strange kind of Egyptologist. He wasn’t really interested in Egyptian history, despite his collection of 1000-plus ancient Egyptian objects. What he did like were Egyptian forms—he thought no one had expressed nature better than they did. These ancient objects are famously chimeric: think, for example, of the Great Sphinx of Giza. Rodin’s human figures are chimeric too, the anatomical and elemental spun together with enough force to form a single subject. Illuminating this visual dialogue, “Rodin’s Egypt” includes 60 objects from the artist’s collection, totems that inspired his thinking as well as his sculptures. —Jimmy Lux Fox