Collection

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

Brooklyn Museum photograph

Object Label

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.

Caption

Auguste Rodin (French, 1840–1917); Fonderie de Coubertin, Saint-Rémy-les-Chevreuses. 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. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)

Gallery

Not on view

Title

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

Date

ca. 1886; cast ca. 1983

Geography

Place made: France

Medium

Bronze

Classification

Sculpture

Dimensions

16 1/4 x 9 5/8 x 11 1/2 in. (41.3 x 24.4 x 29.2 cm)

Signatures

Front, proper left bottom edge: "A. Rodin"

Inscriptions

Front, proper left bottom edge: "No 4/8"

Markings

Front, proper left side:"E. GODARD FONDr" Back, lower edge: "© by Musée Rodin 1983"

Credit Line

Gift of Iris and B. Gerald Cantor

Accession Number

87.106.1

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Artists and makers

Auguste Rodin

75 works in the collection

Fonderie de Coubertin, Saint-Rémy-les-Chevreuses

8 works in the collection