Eustache de Saint Pierre (sculpture)

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Eustache de Saint Pierre
Model for Eustache de Saint-Pierre
ArtistAuguste Rodin
Year1885-1886 (conceived)
LocationMuseo Soumaya, Mexico City

Eustache de Saint Pierre is a sculpture by

Jean d´Aire and Andrieu d'Andres
) were also cast as individual figures.

Design process

In Rodin's first maquette for the project, the figure of Eustache de Saint Pierre (the oldest of the burghers) was in a dominant position within the group, carrying the town's keys.[2] The second maquette still showed the whole group and still had Saint Pierre in the front row, but his pose had been changed to showing his arms lowered and his body leaning forward. However, the committee supervising the commission rejected this pose, since it did not wish Saint Pierre to be shown as dejected.[3]

Rodin also produced nude models of the individual figures - this work is one of them.

Pas de Calais - 19th century pseudo-sciences such as physiognomy held that each region had a specific set of facial features.[5]
Although clothed in a robe and with a noose round his neck, the figure of Saint Pierre in the finished group is otherwise almost identical to the model.

See also

References

  1. ISBN 9786077805137
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  2. ^ "The Burghers of Calais: it has a happy ending, really it does…". Stanford University. Retrieved 2016-12-19.
  3. ^ "Eustache de Saint-Pierre [Eustache de Saint-Pierre]". National Gallery of Australia. Retrieved 2016-12-19.
  4. ^ "Eustache de Saint-Pierre, nude study". Musée Rodin. Archived from the original on 2017-01-05. Retrieved 2016-12-19.
  5. ^ "Eustache de Saint-Pierre type A Head". Archived from the original on 2016-12-23. Retrieved 2016-12-19.

External links

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