Bust of Victor Hugo

Cleveland Museum of Art

Bust of Victor Hugo

Auguste RodinLinkedCulture matchlcp-330bd0e8de10

Date
1883
Medium
bronze
Culture
France, 19th century
Department
Modern European Painting and Sculpture
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID
119747

Unlike most of Rodin’s portraits, the bust of Victor Hugo (1802–1885) was made from memory because the famous French writer refused to sit for the artist. Among Hugo’s best-known novels are The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1831) and Les Misérables (1862).

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Credit line
Bequest of James Parmelee
Provenance
Knoedler | [M. Knoedler & Co.]; Estate of James Parmelee

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