The Heroic Head of Pierre de Wissant, One of the Burghers of Calais, is a plaster sculpture depicting one of the figures in Auguste Rodin’s large public monument The Burghers of Calais. It commemorates an event during the Hundred Years’ War, when Calais, a French port on the English Channel, surrendered to the English after an eleven-month siege. The city commissioned Rodin to create the sculpture in 1884 and the work was completed in 1889.
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Current Location: Cleveland Museum of Art
Arists/Designer/Maker: Auguste Rodin
Object type: Sculpture
Materials: Plaster
Date: Late 19th-early 20th century
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