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| 2023-05-08 051 Barbey d'Aurevilly (clay 1909-12, bronze 1925); Rodin Museum, Philadelphia |
| Novelist Jules-Amedee 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. |