File:Auguste Rodin - Jean d'Aire - 1917.723 - Cleveland Museum of Art.tif

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Auguste Rodin: Jean d'Aire   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Auguste Rodin  (1840–1917)  wikidata:Q30755 s:es:Autor:Auguste Rodin q:en:Auguste Rodin
 
Auguste Rodin
Description French sculptor, drawer, photographer, painter and printmaker
Date of birth/death 12 November 1840 Edit this at Wikidata 17 November 1917 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Paris Edit this at Wikidata Meudon Edit this at Wikidata
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artist QS:P170,Q30755
Title
Jean d'Aire
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In 1884 Rodin received a commission to create a large public monument honoring six French men who volunteered to be taken prisoner by an English army in exchange for the English releasing the town of Calais from a brutal 11-month siege. This reduced cast depicts one of the volunteers from the monument. Rather than idealized heroes, Rodin portrays the prominent citizens known as burghers as ordinary men experiencing personal confrontations with death. Jean d’Aire faces his fate with stoic resolve. The thick folds of his tunic weigh heavily on his body, as if symbolic of an internal struggle between his willingness to sacrifice his life and a desire to live. His intense glare into space seems to betray the dread and anxiety raging within his mind. Immensely popular as an independent sculpture, Rodin made numerous versions in various sizes.
Date 1884
date QS:P571,+1884-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium Bronze
Dimensions Overall: 47 x 16.5 x 12.1 cm (18 1/2 x 6 1/2 x 4 3/4 in.)
institution QS:P195,Q657415
Current location
Modern European Painting and Sculpture
Accession number
1917.723
Place of creation France, 19th century
Credit line Gift of Loïe Fuller
Source/Photographer https://clevelandart.org/art/1917.723

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