Bust of Victor Hugo
Auguste Rodin
1883
- Medium
- bronze
- Dimensions
- Overall: 56.2 x 26.8 x 26.1 cm (22 1/8 x 10 9/16 x 10 1/4 in.)
- Genre
- Sculpture
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Tags
France, 19th century
About
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).
