Victor Hugo
by RODIN, Auguste, Bronze, height 45 cm
Victor-Marie Hugo (1802-1885) was probably the most famous author and poet of nineteenth-century France. Rodin first exhibited the model for the bust in 1884 at the Salon of the Soci�t� des Artistes Fran�ais in 1884. The portrait would ultimately serve as the source for the head of Hugo in the Monument to Victor Hugo.