Title: Honoré de Balzac
Object type: Bust
Date: 1891
Artist:  Auguste Rodin 
Artist bio: French, Paris 1840–1917 Meudon
Artist nationality: French
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Terracotta
Dimensions: Art only: 9 1/4 in. (23.5 cm)
Block (art mounted to block: overall assembled height and block footprint ): 15 × 5 × 5 in. (38.1 × 12.7 × 12.7 cm)
Weight on block, confirmed: 14.4 lb. (6.6 kg)
Classification: Sculpture
Credit line: Rogers Fund, 1912
Department: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Men, term: Portraits, term: Authors