Heroic Head of Pierre de Wissant, One of the Burghers of Calais (Q60780963)

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artist: Auguste Rodin (Q30755)
collection: Cleveland Museum of Art (Q657415)
location: Cleveland Museum of Art (Q657415)
part of the series: Head of Pierre de Wissant (Q100588793)
material used: plaster (Q274988)
donated by: Loïe Fuller (Q180505)
location of final assembly: France (Q142)
part of: Head of Pierre de Wissant (Q100588793)
instance of: sculpture (Q860861)

catalog URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1917.722

information from the Cleveland Museum of Art catalog

description: This sculpture depicts one of the figures in Rodin’s large public monument The Burghers of Calais (1884–89), featuring six French men who volunteered to be taken prisoner by the English in exchange

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