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
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A bronze bust of a man with a beard and hand on his chest.
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From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
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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