Victor Hugo / Auguste Rodin
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- 2013/2.528
- Title
- Victor Hugo
- Artist
- Auguste Rodin
- Artist Nationality
- French
- Artist Life Dates
- 1840-1917
- Medium and Support
- drypoint on chine colle
- Object Creation Date
- 19th century
- Credit Line
- Gift of Nesta and Walter Spink
- Inscription
- recto cr inscribed in plate: Rodin (mirrored in print)
- recto lc in printL Victor Hugo
- verso ll inscribed in pencil: Gázés [?] Rodin
- Dimensions
- 32 x 26.5 cm (12 5/8 x 10 7/16 in.)
- Century
- 19th century
- Physical Description
- A portrait of Victor Hugo. It is a profile image with his head turned to the right side. He has a long shaggy beard and a collared shirt.
- Subject Matter
- This is a portrait of the famous Romantic poet, novelist and dramatist Victor Hugo. The French writer is known for the novels Les Misérables (1862) and The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (1831). Here Rodin, shows him in three quarter view. This, the sixth state, is part of a series of works with different compositions that the sculptor made. This version was published in the illustrated review "Les Lettres et les Arts" (Sept. 1889) and was featured in Gustave Geffroy's "Le Statuaire Rodin."
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- Rights
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Technical Details
- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 2426 x 3426
- File Size
- 316 KB
- Record
- 2013/2.528
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2013-sl-2.528/2013_2.528.jpg
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"Victor Hugo; Auguste Rodin." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2013-sl-2.528/2013_2.528.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 19, 2024.
