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Head of Pierre de Wissant at The Fine Arts Museum in Ghent, Belgium

Title
Monumental Head of Pierre de Wissant


Artist
Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)


Date
Modeled ca. 1884-1885, enlarged before 1909, cast 1980


Medium
Bronze


Dimensions
81.3 x 48.3 x 52.1 cm



This is one of the most famous sculptures by the French sculptor Auguste Rodin in his dramatic Group 'The Burghers of Calais' from 1889. In this larger-than-life portrait, Pierre de Wissant's introspective agony is amplified to an almost unbearable intensity. The tilt of the head, given greater emphasis through the unusual base of the sculpture, makes this agony even more poignant. The source of Wissant's anguish was his decision to join five other civic leaders who agreed to sacrifice their own lives in 1367 to free their beseiged city of Calais from English occupation.
Rodin produced many variants of the group piece (available to download here), check out the rest of his collection on MyMiniFactory!
 

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