Northwest Gallery
Rodin Museum
Northwest Gallery
Rodin Museum
This work represents one of Rodin’s last studies for Balzac’s head. The deep hollow of the eyes is accentuated by a bulbous, beaklike nose. (Balzac reputedly told another sculptor, "Be careful of my nose; my nose is a world.") In Rodin’s hands, the head became not so much a physical portrait of the great writer as a rendering of the location from which his art and genius arose.
...Rodin Museum, Northwest Gallery
Titles: | Colossal Head of Balzac |
Date: | Modeled 1898; cast 1925 |
Artists: | Auguste Rodin, French, 1840 - 1917. Cast by the founder Alexis Rudier, Paris, 1874 - 1952 |
Medium: | Bronze |
Dimensions: | 20 x 16 1/2 x 15 1/4 inches (50.8 x 41.9 x 38.7 cm) |
Classification: | Sculpture |
Credit Line: | Bequest of Jules E. Mastbaum, 1929 |
Accession Number: | F1929-7-1 |
Geography: | Made in France, Europe |
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