id: 100824 accession number: 1920.120 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1920.120 updated: 2020-06-29 09:00:16.937000 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 title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1886 creation date earliest: 1886 creation date latest: 1886 current location: AAE Art Allée East creditline: The Norweb Collection copyright: --- culture: France, 19th century technique: bronze department: Modern European Painting and Sculpture collection: Mod Euro - Sculpture 1800-1960 type: Sculpture find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Auguste Rodin (French, 1840-1917) - artist --- measurements: Overall: 83.5 x 47 x 55.3 cm (32 7/8 x 18 1/2 x 21 3/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: inscribed at neck, left: A.Rodin; inscribed lower back: Alexis Rudier/Fondeur-Paris. translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Loïe Fuller opening date: 1984-04-10T04:00:00 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 Center for the Visual Arts, 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: 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). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Museum of Modern Art, NY, Rodin Sculpture, April 29-September 8, 1963. --- PROVENANCE Purchased by Mrs. Emery May Holden Norweb in 1917, but held in Paris and sent to the CMA in 1920. date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: This sculpture depicts the head of a figure from Rodin's large public monument The Burghers of Calais (1884-89). The CMA also owns a plaster version of the head. digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- 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 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1920.120/1920.120_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1920.120/1920.120_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1920.120/1920.120_full.tif