Title

Study For The "Monument To Balzac", 1898. Creator: Jean Alexandre Joseph Falguiere.

Caption

Study For The "Monument To Balzac", 1898. This sculpture is a clay study for a marble monument to Honoré de Balzac, one of the most celebrated French authors of the nineteenth century. Balzac is shown dressed in the long robe he wore while writing. The broad masses of the body were modeled quite rapidly, and marks made by the artist’s tools and fingers are still visible on the surface of the clay. Balzac’s face is more detailed, his thoughtful expression suggesting a creative imagination at work.

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Reference

HRM24A23_342

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

47,0Mb (1,7Mb) / 11,0in x 16,5in / 3313 x 4960 (300dpi)

Keywords

portrait people male job man men thoughtful sitting arts country French France sculpture art guy occupation museum color location century profession academic image literature studio shot clay position concept seated looking at camera full length full-length art museum writer Colour Realism author 19th century playwright Museum of Art Realist 1890s nineteenth century artistic movement dramatist novelist Honore de Balzac direct gaze knees crossed sculpture ceramic Balzac Honore Balssa Academic art grey background Clark Art Institute art movement Heritage Art Jean Alexandre Joseph Falguiere Falguiere Jean Alexandre Joseph Alexandre Falguiere 19th-century Honore de Falguiere Alexandre Jean Joseph Jean Alexandre Joseph Falgui?re Jean-Alexandre-Joseph Falgui?re Falgui?re Jean-Alexandre-Joseph Falgui?re Alexandre Jean Joseph Falgui? Honor? de Balzac unfired clay on a shaped wood modeling board