Bust of Victor Hugo
1883
- Medium
- bronze
- Dimensions
- 56.2 × 26.8 × 26.1 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-198843
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).
Provenance
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of James Parmelee, 1940.580
Registry history
- 1883 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art — sculpture
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