Victor Hugo (1802-1885) | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1943.1033
People: Auguste Rodin, French (Paris, France 1840 - 1917 Meudon, France)
Title: Victor Hugo (1802-1885)
Other Titles: Alternate Title: Portrait bust of Victor Hugo
Classification: Sculpture
Work Type: sculpture
Date: 1883
Culture: French
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/229861

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Marble

Dimensions

54.6 x 30.5 x 24.1 cm (21 1/2 x 12 x 9 1/2 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

Signed: proper right shoulder: A. Rodin

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Auguste Rodin, to; Henri de Rochefort-Luçay, November 1900, to; Charles Cottet, to; M. Allard, Paris, circa 1921. [Scott & Fowles, New York, NY], sold; to Grenville L. Winthrop, New York, March 3, 1923, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop

Accession Year

1943

Object Number

1943.1033

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

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Publication History

Arsène Alexandre, Exposition de 1900: L'Oeuvre de Rodin, exh. cat., Société d'Édition Artistique (Paris, 1900), p. 19, cat. no. 86
[Unidentified article], Les Arts (Jul 1905), repr. p. 1; text p. 111
Theodore Meyer Greene, Arts and the Art of Criticism, Princeton University Press (Princeton, NJ, 1940), pp. 297-298
[Reproduction only], "French Sculpture", Bulletin of the Fogg Art Museum, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, November 1943)., repr. in b/w, p. 61
[Untitled article], Harvard Alumni Bulletin, Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, January 8, 1944), vol. XLVI, repr.
Elliott M. Grant, The Career of Victor Hugo, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1945)
Clifford Stetson Parker and Paul J. Grigaut, Initiation à la Culture Française, Harper & Row (New York, NY, 1963), repr. p. 169
John L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, David R. Godine and Philadelphia Museum of Art (Philadelphia, PA, 1976), no. 87, p. 511; repr. in b/w p. 509, 87-5
Jacques de Caso and Patricia B. Sanders, Rodin's Sculpture: A Critical Study of the Spreckels Collection, Charles E. Tuttle Co. (Rutland, VT and Tokyo, Japan, 1977), p. 272; p. 275, n. 9
Albert Edward Elsen, In Rodin's Studio, Phaidon Press/Cornell University Press (Oxford, England / Ithaca, NY, 1980), cf.: figs. 85-88; p. 177
Alain Beausire, Quand Rodin Exposait, Editions du Musée Rodin (Paris, France, 1988), p. 188, no. 86
Maria Rosa Figueiredo, Catalogo de Escultura Europeia vol. I, A Escultura Francesa, Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian (Lisbon, Portugal, 1992), p. 242, under no. 59
Daniel Rosenfeld, "Auguste Rodin's Carved Sculpture (Volumes I-III)" (1993), p. 400, cat. no. 37a
Rodin: La chair, le marbre, exh. cat., Musée Rodin (Paris, 2012), p. 214

Exhibition History

Exposition Rodin, Pavilion Rodin, Paris, 06/01/1900 - 11/30/1900
32Q: 2200 19th Century, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/14/2022 - 02/27/2023

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1943.1033: Victor Hugo (1802-1885)