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Heroic Bust of Victor Hugo
From the collection of Kunstmuseum Basel. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
The bust is a version of the Poet's Head based on a design for the "Monument à Victor Hugo", which Auguste Rodin was supposed to execute as a commissioned work for the Panthéon in Paris. The bronze cast in Basel goes back to the second heroic bust version from 1902, of which Alexis Rudier produced a total of eight bronze casts before 1914 (Le Normand-Romain/Marraud/Tytgat 2007, p. 439). Further casts followed later.
Kunstmuseum Basel’s own descriptionCredit lineBuste héroïque de Victor Hugo. 1902, Guss vor 1908. Auguste Rodin (1840–1917). Kunstmuseum Basel, Ankauf. Public domain.
