Jean De Fiennes - Pasadena, CA - Exact Replicas on Waymarking.com

Several casts of Auguste Rodin's works accompanying this one. This work was a study for the nearby sculpture "The Burghers of Calais".
It depicts a lifesized de Fiennes in a tattered robe, facing the viewer and gesturing with his hands at his side as if asking "Why?".
The Museum's website (visit link) informs us that is the first of four casts:

"Jean de Fiennes, Vetu, 1884-95

Auguste Rodin
French, 1840-1917
Bronze, Edition of IV, Cast No. I
81-7/8 x 31 x 47 in. (208.0 x 78.7 x 119.4 cm)"

Although Wikipedia doesn't have a page for de Fiennes, who must have been one of the burghers of the city of Calais, this is the website concerning the sculpture for which this was a study (visit link)

The Museum's webpage for the Burghers sculpture (visit link) informs us:

"The Burghers of Calais depicts an episode from the history of the Hundred Years' War. In 1347, after the city of Calais had been under siege for eleven months, six prominent citizens offered their lives to the English king, Edward III, in return for his promise to spare the city. Upon hearing of their bravery, Queen Philippa interceded and obtained their release. In 1884, Rodin was commissioned by the city of Calais to produce a monument honoring the six burghers. Rodin rejected the established conventions of public sculpture and portrayed the men not as glorious heroes, but as troubled and isolated individuals brought together by their anguish and common purpose. He depicted the emaciated figures departing, dressed in tattered sackcloth, to surrender themselves to the English army. Features and proportions are distorted to intensify the expressiveness of the figures struggling with their conflicting thoughts of fear, indecision, anguish, and nobility."


The National Gallery of Australia (visit link) however indicates that it has the 1st cast of twelve...with the original being in Paris. It also gives some info about de Fiennes:

"Jean de Fiennes was not identified in Jean Froissart's Chronicles and his name only came to light in 1863 when Baron Kervyn de Lettenhove published a manuscript found in the Vatican library naming Jean de Fiennes and Andrieu d'Andres as the two unknown burghers.6 The pose of Jean de Fiennes is little changed from the open-armed, slightly turning attitude established in the second maquette, and is carried through to the final figure with only small refinements. The Nude study of Jean de Fiennes in the Gallery's collection is the first in an edition of twelve and was cast by the Georges Rudier Foundry, Paris, in 1974 from the plaster in the Musée Rodin, Paris"

Where is original located?: Musée Rodin, Paris Where is this replica located?: Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, CA Who created the original?: Auguste Rodin Internet Link about Original: http://artsearch.nga.gov.au/Detail.cfm?IRN=36791&PICTAUS=True Year Original was Created (approx. ok): 1886

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