罗丹版画作品《维克多·雨果（四分之三侧面像）》高清图片

作品简介

当罗丹提出为雨果制作肖像时，这位《巴黎圣母院》(1831)与《悲惨世界》(1862)的作者已至暮年。先前另一位雕塑家平庸的半身像创作已耗尽雨果的耐心，更不巧的是，其忠贞的情人朱丽叶·德鲁埃正因癌症濒临死亡。虽细节众说纷纭，但早期记载均确认：罗丹获准出入雨果宅邸速写，诗人却拒绝正式摆姿。罗丹从各个角度完成数十幅素描，有些现场疾就，有些凭记忆补绘，最终才得以在僻静角落架起雕塑架进行黏土创作。通过这些前期准备，罗丹完成的雨果半身像于1884年首展于法国艺术家协会沙龙，随后诞生了一系列精湛版画。其中《四分之三侧面像》的第五版状态于1885年2月发表在《艺术家》杂志。

The author of Notre-Dame de Paris(1831) and Les Misérables (1862) was an old man when Rodin proposed to make his portrait. Hugo's patience with sittings had been strained to the breaking point by another sculptor whose efforts are reported to have produced a mediocre bust. Moreover, Hugo's devoted mistress Juliette Drouet was dying of cancer. Details of the story vary, but the earliest published accounts agree that Rodin was permitted to be present in the Hugo household and to make sketches, but that the poet would not actually pose. Rodin made dozens of drawings from every possible viewpoint, some rapidly sketched on the spot and others from memory, before being allowed to set up a modeling stand in an out-of-the-way corner to work in clay. From these preliminaries Rodin created the bust of Hugo that he first exhibited at the Salon of the Société des Artistes Français in 1884. A series of splendidly executed prints followed. The fifth state of this Three-Quarter View was published in the journal L'Artiste in February 1885.