Jean d'Aire
1884
- Medium
- bronze
- Dimensions
- 47 × 16.5 × 12.1 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-196182
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 be…
Provenance
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Loïe Fuller, 1917.723
Registry history
- 1884 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art — sculpture
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