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Preferred term

La Défense (Call to Arms)  

Entry terms

  • CALL TO ARMS (LA DEFENSE)

Note

  • Generic artist: Rodin, Auguste, 1840-1917 [Chapel Hill]
  • Generic artist: Rodin, Auguste, 1840-1917 [Paris, bronze]
  • Generic artist: Rodin, Auguste, 1840-1917 [Paris, plaster]
  • Generic artist: Rodin, Auguste, 1840-1917 [Philadelphia]
  • Generic location: Chapel Hill (NC, USA), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Ackland Art Museum
  • Generic location: Paris (FRA), Musee Rodin
  • Generic location: Philadelphia (PA, USA), Rodin Museum
  • Generic medium: sculpture, bronze, 1878-79
  • Generic medium: sculpture, plaster, 1878-79

Scope note

  • Rodin: For monument to defense of Paris in 1870-71 war; 1878-79 plaster (& bronzes cast from it), only version by R.'s hand; 1906 on, attempts to enlarge it; 1916-20 enlarged by Henri Lebosse for monumentto the Defense of Verdun; also, plaster by Lebosse in Musee Rodin, Paris.[Female figure,when cast alone,is called Genius(or Spirit) of War.]

Notation

  • 260176

In other languages

  • French

  • APPEL AUX ARMES (LE DEFENSE)
  • DEFENSE (LA DEFENSE)
  • L'APPEL AUX ARMES (LA DEFENSE)
  • LA PATRIE VAINCUE (LA DEFENSE)
  • PATRIE VAINCUE (LA DEFENSE)

URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/HTR-G3FRQSHK-J

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