id: 100824
accession number: 1920.120
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Heroic Head of Pierre de Wissant, One of the Burghers of Calais, 1886. Auguste Rodin (French, 1840–1917). Bronze; overall: 83.5 x 47 x 55.3 cm (32 7/8 x 18 1/2 x 21 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Norweb Collection, 1920.120
title: Heroic Head of Pierre de Wissant, One of the Burghers of Calais
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creation date: 1886
creation date earliest: 1886
creation date latest: 1886
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creditline: The Norweb Collection
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culture: France, 19th century
technique: bronze
department: Modern European Painting and Sculpture
collection: Mod Euro - Sculpture 1800-1960
type: Sculpture
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CREATORS
* Auguste Rodin (French, 1840–1917) - artist
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measurements: Overall: 83.5 x 47 x 55.3 cm (32 7/8 x 18 1/2 x 21 3/4 in.)
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inscription: inscribed at neck, left: A.Rodin; inscribed lower back: Alexis Rudier/Fondeur-Paris.
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Rodin
opening date: 1963-04-29T04:00:00
Rodin. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (organizer) (April 29-September 8, 1963).
title: Loïe Fuller
opening date: 1984-04-10T05:00:00
Loïe Fuller. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 10-June 3, 1984).
title: Monet to Dalí: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art
opening date: 2006-05-27T00:00:00
Monet to Dalí: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Beijing World Art Museum, China (May 26-August 27, 2006); Mori Art Center (September 16-November 26, 2006); Seoul Art Center, South Korea (December 22, 2006-March 28, 2007); Seoul Olympic Museum of Art, South Korea (April 7-May 20, 2007); Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada (June 9-September 16, 2007); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 21, 2007-January 13, 2008); Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN (February 15-June 1, 2008); Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT (June 22-September 21, 2008); The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (October 12, 2008-January 18, 2009).
title: Gallery One 2012
opening date: 2012-12-12T05:00:00
Gallery One 2012. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 12, 2012-March 5, 2017).
title: Rodin—100 Years
opening date: 2017-09-01T04:00:00
Rodin—100 Years. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 1, 2017-May 13, 2018).
title: Rodin-100 Years
opening date: 2017-09-01T04:00:00
Rodin-100 Years. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 1, 2017-May 13, 2018).
title: Rodin in the United States: Confronting the Modern
opening date: 2022-06-18T04:00:00
Rodin in the United States: Confronting the Modern. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA (organizer) (June 18-September 18, 2022) https://www.clarkart.edu/microsites/rodin/; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA (October 21, 2022-January 15, 2023).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'Museum of Modern Art, NY, Rodin Sculpture, April 29-September 8, 1963.', 'opening_date': '1963-04-29T00:00:00'}
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PROVENANCE
Purchased by Mrs. Emery May Holden Norweb in 1917, but held in Paris and sent to the CMA in 1920.
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
"Modern Sculpture at the Museum." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 4, no. 6 (1917): 108-09.
page number: Mentioned: pp. 108-109
url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25136110
"Rodin Memorial Exhibition." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 4, no. 9 (1917): 162-63.
page number: Mentioned: p. 162
url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25136150
"Report of the Museum's Second Year." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 5, no. 6/7 (1918): 69-79.
page number: Mentioned: p. 70
url: www.jstor.org/stable/25136208
F. A. W. "An Heroic Head by Rodin." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 7, no. 4 (1920): 43.
page number: Reproduced: Front Matter; Mentioned: p. 43
url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25136365
Tacha, Athena. Rodin Sculpture in the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1967.
page number: Mentioned: p. 96, cat. no. IX, Reproduced: p. [44], Plate 62; p. 45, Plate 62a
url: https://archive.org/details/RodinSculpture/page/n110
Tacha, Athena. A Supplement to Rodin Sculpture in the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1974.
page number: Mentioned: p. 129S, cat. no. IX
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Rodin, Auguste, Antoinette Le Normand-Romain, Christina Buley-Uribe, Patrick R. Crowley, C. D. Dickerson, Laure de Margerie, Véronique Mattiussi, Elyse Nelson, Jennifer A. Thompson, and Nora M. Rosengarten. Rodin in the United States: Confronting the Modern. Williamstown, Massachusetts : Clark Art Institute, 2022.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 134, cat. 46
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IMAGES
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