File:Clevelandart 1917.722.jpg
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[edit]Auguste Rodin: Heroic Head of Pierre de Wissant, One of the Burghers of Calais
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| Title |
Heroic Head of Pierre de Wissant, One of the Burghers of Calais  |
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Head of Pierre de Wissant |
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| Series title |
Head of Pierre de Wissant |
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| Object type |
sculpture |
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| Description |
This sculpture depicts one of the figures in Rodin’s large public monument The Burghers of Calais (1884–89), featuring six French men who volunteered to be taken prisoner by the English in exchange for lifting the siege of Calais during the Hundred Years War (1337–1453). Pierre de Wissant’s anguished expression suggests extreme mental suffering as he contemplates his expected execution. Rodin exhibited a life-size version of the figure as an independent work before completing the monument. He later made multiple versions in various sizes and media. This plaster features a highly expressive, hand-worked surface inscribed in places with graphite and covered with delicate, tinted washes. |
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1886 |
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plaster |
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| Dimensions |
height: 85.1 cm (33.5 in) ; width: 61 cm (24 in) ; thickness: 50.8 cm (20 in) |
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Modern European Painting and Sculpture |
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1917.722 (Cleveland Museum of Art) |
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| Place of creation | France, late 19th-early 20th Century | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Credit line | Gift of Loïe Fuller | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Source/Photographer | https://clevelandart.org/art/1917.722 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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