Heroic Head of Pierre de Wissant, One of the Burghers of Calais
1886
Auguste Rodin
Auguste Rodin (French, 1840–1917)
Modern European Painting and Sculpture
Heroic Head of Pierre de Wissant, One of the Burghers of Calais, 1886. Auguste Rodin (French, 1840–1917). Bronze; overall: 83.5 x 47 x 55.3 cm (32 7/8 x 18 1/2 x 21 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Norweb Collection 1920.120 This sculpture depicts the head of a figure from Rodin's large public monument The Burghers of Calais (1884-89). The CMA also owns a plaster version of the head.
- Maker/Artist
- Rodin, Auguste
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Formatted Medium
- bronze
- Medium
- bronze
- Dimensions
- Overall: 83.5 x 47 x 55.3 cm (32 7/8 x 18 1/2 x 21 3/4 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: inscribed at neck, left: A.Rodin; inscribed lower back: Alexis Rudier/Fondeur-Paris.
- Departments
- Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Accession Number
- 1920.120
- Credit Line
- The Norweb Collection
- Exhibitions
- Rodin, Loïe Fuller, Monet to Dalí: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art, Gallery One 2012, Rodin-100 Years, Rodin in the United States: Confronting the Modern, Museum of Modern Art, NY, Rodin Sculpture, April 29-September 8, 1963.
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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