Study for the Head of the Monument to Honoré de Balzac

Inscriptions

Signed on hair to right: "A. Rodin"

Mrs. Franklyn B. Sanders

Exhibition history

Baron Gros, Painter of Battles: The First Romantic Painter. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 8-April 15, 1956).

Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.

Artist: Auguste Rodin (French, 1840–1917)
Date: 1893–1897
Medium: bronze
Dimensions: Overall: 18.8 x 20.7 x 16.2 cm (7 3/8 x 8 1/8 x 6 3/8 in.)
Type: Sculpture
Classification: Sculpture
Department: Modern European Painting and Sculpture
Credit line: Gift of Mrs. Franklyn B. Sanders in memory of Franklyn Brownell Sanders
Accession no.: 1948.117

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