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Bust of Victor Hugo
Auguste Rodin1883
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
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 <em>The Hunchback of Notre Dame</em> (1831) and <em>Les Misérables</em> (1862).
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- Title: Bust of Victor Hugo
- Creator: Auguste Rodin (French, 1840-1917)
- Date Created: 1883
- Physical Dimensions: Overall: 56.2 x 26.8 x 26.1 cm (22 1/8 x 10 9/16 x 10 1/4 in.)
- Provenance: Knoedler, [M. Knoedler & Co.]; Estate of James Parmelee
- Type: Sculpture
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1940.580
- Medium: bronze
- Inscriptions: Signed beneath fold of drapery to left: "A. Rodin"
- Department: Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Culture: France, 19th century
- Credit Line: Bequest of James Parmelee
- Collection: Mod Euro - Sculpture 1800-1960
- Accession Number: 1940.580
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