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Casting Hugo into History.(David d'Angers' sculptures of Victor Hugo and tensions between Romantic and Neoclassical movements)

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From: Nineteenth-Century French Studies
Date: 20060922
Author:Nash, Suzanne

The ironies and misconceptions surrounding the story of Hugo's sculptural image, as it was first conceived by David d'Angers in 1827 and later in the century by Rodin, are symptomatic of fundamental tensions within the Romantic movement regarding the function and practice of the new, post-revolutionary style. Both David and Hugo, in their separate artistic domains, were considered to be leaders of the Romantic school, and Rodin is the sculptor who carried the break with neoclassicism to its most extreme limit. Yet David's determination to immortalize Hugo as poetic genius and ...

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