page_title: The Burghers of Calais
section_title: Casts
hierarchical_section_title: The Burghers of Calais / Casts
caption_attribution_description: English: The Burghers of Calais by Auguste Rodin in the Memorial Court of the Main Quad, on the Stanford University campus Français&#160;: Les Bourgeois de Calais Русский: Граждане Кале
context_page_description: The Burghers of Calais is a sculpture by Auguste Rodin, that exists in twelve original castings, and numerous copies. It commemorates an event during the Hundred Years' War, when Calais, a French port on the English Channel, was under siege by the English for about eleven months. Calais commissioned Rodin to create the sculpture in 1884 and the work was completed in 1889.
context_section_description: Under French law no more than twelve original casts of works of Rodin may be made.
  The 1895 cast of the group of six figures still stands in Calais.  Other original casts stand at:
  Glyptoteket in Copenhagen, cast 1903.
  the Musée royal de Mariemont in Morlanwelz, Belgium, cast 1905.
  Victoria Tower Gardens in the shadow of the Houses of Parliament in London; cast 1908, installed on this site in 1914 and unveiled 19 July 1915. The inscription on the pedestal was carved by Eric Gill.
  the Rodin Museum in Philadelphia, cast 1925 and installed in 1929.
  the gardens of the Musée Rodin in Paris, cast 1926 and given to the museum in 1955.
  Kunstmuseum in Basel, cast 1943 and installed in 1948.
  the Smithsonian Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC, cast 1943 and installed in 1966.
  the National Museum of Western Art in Tokyo, cast 1953 and installed in 1959.
  the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, California, cast 1968.
  the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, cast 1985 and installed in 1989.
  Plateau (formerly called Rodin Gallery and closed since 2016) in Seoul. This is the twelfth and final original cast and was cast in 1995.
  Copies of individual statues are:
  sculptures of the individual figures on the campus of Stanford University;
  sculptures of the individual figures Jean d'Aire and Jean de Fiennes as well as busts of d'Aire and Pierre de Wissant are on display at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in the Sculpture Garden.
  a study of Jean d'Aire at Visual Arts Center at Davidson College, cast in 1972;
  "The man with the key" figure (Jean d'Aire), on the Sommerro Park in Oslo, Norway.
  A bust of Jean d'Aire was recovered a quarter mile away from Ground Zero, together with other pieces from works by Rodin which were in the corporate offices of Cantor Fitzgerald at the World One Trade Center.
caption: Memorial Court, Stanford University[13]
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