Modeled 1909-1912; cast 1925
Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly
Auguste RodinFrench, 1840 - 1917
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The novelist Jules-Amédée Barbey d’Aurevilly (French, 1808–1889) was one of Balzac’s most fervent supporters and an early sponsor of the Balzac monument. In 1909 Rodin was approached to design a memorial to d’Aurevilly; a version of this bust, showing the author’s fashionable features and dress, sits on a high pedestal in the Norman city of Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte, his birthplace.
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