Victor Hugo

Auguste Rodin

first modeled 1883 · Bronze, marble base · European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

Victor-Marie Hugo (1802–1885) was probably the most famous author and poet of nineteenth-century France. Rodin first exhibited the model for the bust in 1884 at the Salon of the Société des Artistes Français in 1884. The portrait would ultimately serve as the source for the head of Hugo in the Monument to Victor Hugo.

Artist

Auguste Rodin

Date

first modeled 1883

Medium

Bronze, marble base

Culture

French

Department

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

Credit line

Gift of Virginia Pratt Thayer, Sally Pratt Jackson, Phyllis Pratt Nitz, Edwin H. Baker Pratt and John T. Pratt Jr., 1966