| dc.coverage.spatial | Site: Musée d'Orsay (Paris, Île-de-France, France) DO 1986 2, S 163 | en_US |
| dc.coverage.temporal | 1898 (creation) | en_US |
| dc.creator | Rodin, Auguste | en_US |
| dc.date | 1898 | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2016-08-23T18:13:47Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2016-08-23T18:13:47Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1898 | en_US |
| dc.identifier | 267992 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.other | archrefid: 3320 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/184306 | |
| dc.description | Overall view from below, seen in the Musee d'Orsay main concourse; When the plaster was exhibited at the 1898 Salon the critics went wild, pouring scorn on the formless block. They compared it to a toad in a sack, a statue still wrapped, a block of salt caught in a shower. They nicknamed it the menhir, the snowman. The Société des Gens de Lettres refused to accept this work that broke with all the traditional conventions for a commemorative monument, and that ignored the requirement for a realistic portrait. And so Rodin kept the statue, returned the money, and refused all offers to buy it. It was not until 1939 that a bronze cast was erected in Paris, on the boulevard Raspail. Source: Musée d'Orsay [website]; http://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/ (accessed 8/27/2015) | en_US |
| dc.format.medium | plaster | en_US |
| dc.rights | © Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc. | en_US |
| dc.subject | human figure | en_US |
| dc.subject | literary or legendary | en_US |
| dc.subject | portrait | en_US |
| dc.subject | Balzac, Honoré de, 1799-1850 | en_US |
| dc.subject | author | en_US |
| dc.subject | Nineteenth century | en_US |
| dc.title | Monument to Balzac [plaster, 1898] | en_US |
| dc.type | image | en_US |
| dc.rights.access | Licensed for educational and research use by the MIT community only | en_US |
| dc.identifier.vendorcode | 7A1-RA-BALZM-A02 | en_US |
| vra.culturalContext | French | en_US |
| vra.technique | casting (process), modeling (forming) | en_US |
| vra.worktype | sculpture (visual work) | en_US |
| dc.contributor.display | Auguste Rodin (French sculptor, 1840-1917) | en_US |
