/internal/media/dispatcher/165731/fullStudy for a Monument to Victor Hugo1890[Auguste Rodin]Auguste RodinTerracotta The French novelist Victor Hugo (1802–1885) gazes downward, lost in thought. The lower half of his body appears confined within a heavy mass, while three female figures hover above him. They may be muses or the inner voices to which the poet seems to be listening. With works that seem intentionally unfinished, retaining rough surfaces and visible tool marks, French sculptor Auguste Rodin revolutionized traditional sculpture. Rather than glorifying the figure or portraying it as a symbol of power, Rodin focuses on gesture, facial expression, and the immediacy of feeling—on expression in its purest sense. Rodin's design was later executed in marble in a revised form between 1895 and 1906 and is now in the Musée Rodin in Paris.Sculpturehttps://sammlungtest.belvedere.at/objects/1116/rdf