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品名（中）	巴尔扎克荣誉
品名（英）	Honoré de Balzac
入馆年号	1912年，12.11.1
策展部门	欧洲雕塑和装饰艺术（European Sculpture and Decorative Arts）
创作者	Auguste Rodin【1840 至 1917】【法国人】
创作年份	公元 1891
创作地区
分类	雕塑（Sculpture）
尺寸	Art only: 9 1/4 英寸 (23.5 厘米) Block (art mounted to block: overall assembled height and block footprint ): 15 × 5 × 5 英寸 (38.1 × 12.7 × 12.7 厘米) Weight on block, confirmed: 14.4 磅 (6.6 kg)
介绍（中）	1891年，法国文学家协会委托罗丹为1850年去世的巴尔扎克在巴黎皇家宫建造纪念碑。罗丹做了许多准备研究。随着头部从栩栩如生的肖像演变成最终版本的巨大、崎岖、面具般的脸，罗丹多次前往巴尔扎克居住的图尔——罗丹拒绝根据已故作家的照片绘制表面上准确的肖像。在那里，他希望找到面部特征与巴尔扎克相似的男性作为作者肖像的模特。这件原始的陶土代表了其中一位模特，一位名叫Estager的男子，罗丹称他为"旅游指挥"。Etrager的魁梧五官、紧锁的眉毛和穿透力的表情与巴尔扎克的相呼应。雕塑家为这张脸画了几张草图，然后把它变成了一个抽象的面具。纪念碑的最终版本完成于1898年，描绘了巴尔扎克裹着他写作时喜欢穿的僧袍。这座雕像与其说是肖像，不如说是一种象征，它震惊了法国兴业银行，但他们拒绝了它。1939年，罗丹去世18年后，第一座青铜雕像在巴黎的蒙帕纳斯大道和拉斯帕尔大道的交叉口竖立。
介绍（英）	In 1891, the Société des Gens de Lettres commissioned Rodin to create a monument to Balzac, who had died in 1850, for the Palais-Royal in Paris. Rodin made numerous preparatory studies. As the head evolved from a lifelike portrait to the huge, craggy, masklike face of the final version, Rodin made several trips to Tours, where Balzac had lived - Rodin had refused to execute a superficially accurate likeness based on photographs of the deceased writer. There, he hoped to find men with facial characteristics similar to those of Balzac to serve as models for the author's portrait. This original terracotta represents one of the models, a man named Estager, whom Rodin identified as the "Conductor of Tours." Etrager’s hefty features, furrowed brow, and penetrating expression echo Balzac’s. The sculptor made several sketches for the face before transforming it into an abstracted mask. The final version of the monument, finished in 1898, depicts Balzac wrapped in the monk's robe he liked to wear when he was writing. More of a symbol than a portrait, the statue shocked the Société and they rejected it. The first cast in bronze was erected in Paris in 1939, eighteen years after Rodin's death, at the crossing of the boulevards Montparnasse and Raspail.