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Eustache de Saint-Pierre, Final Head, With Rope Around the Neck (Eustache de Saint-Pierre, tête définitive, avec corde autour de cou)

Auguste Rodin, Fonderie de Coubertin, Saint-Rémy-les-Chevreuses

European Art

On View:
When Rodin had parts of his compositions cast as independent sculptures, their relationship to the larger work was often not readily apparent. For this bust of Eustache de Saint-Pierre, however, the rope around his neck remained, maintaining the old man’s identity as a burgher.

The model for this head was the artist Jean-Charles Cazin, a friend of Rodin’s who was a native of the Calais region and allegedly a descendant of Eustache de Saint-Pierre.
MEDIUM Bronze
  • Place Made: France
  • DATES ca. 1886; cast ca. 1983
    DIMENSIONS 16 1/4 x 9 5/8 x 11 1/2 in. (41.3 x 24.4 x 29.2 cm)  (show scale)
    MARKINGS Front, proper left side:"E. GODARD FONDr" Back, lower edge: "© by Musée Rodin 1983"
    SIGNATURE Front, proper left bottom edge: "A. Rodin"
    INSCRIPTIONS Front, proper left bottom edge: "No 4/8"
    COLLECTIONS European Art
    ACCESSION NUMBER 87.106.1
    CREDIT LINE Gift of Iris and B. Gerald Cantor
    MUSEUM LOCATION This item is not on view
    CAPTION Auguste Rodin (French, 1840–1917). Eustache de Saint-Pierre, Final Head, With Rope Around the Neck (Eustache de Saint-Pierre, tête définitive, avec corde autour de cou), ca. 1886; cast ca. 1983. Bronze, 16 1/4 x 9 5/8 x 11 1/2 in. (41.3 x 24.4 x 29.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Iris and B. Gerald Cantor, 87.106.1. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 87.106.1_bw.jpg)
    EDITION Edition: 4/8
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    Auguste Rodin (French, 1840–1917). <em>Eustache de Saint-Pierre, Final Head, With Rope Around the Neck (Eustache de Saint-Pierre, tête définitive, avec corde autour de cou)</em>, ca. 1886; cast ca. 1983. Bronze, 16 1/4 x 9 5/8 x 11 1/2 in. (41.3 x 24.4 x 29.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Iris and B. Gerald Cantor, 87.106.1. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 87.106.1_bw.jpg)

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