Bust of Bellona

1882–85

Dating: Date range
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Drypoint, third state of three, before bevelled plate
Dimensions: plate: 5 3/4 x 3 15/16 in. (14.6 x 10 cm) sheet: 9 1/16 x 6 15/16 in. (23 x 17.7 cm) plate: 5 13/16 x 3 15/16 in. (14.8 x 10 cm)
Collection no.: 16.37.3
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Auguste Rodin. Bust of Bellona. Auguste Rodin; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Rogers Fund, 1916. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

About this artwork

Bust of Bellona — Auguste Rodin. 1882–85.

Medium: Drypoint, third state of three, before bevelled plate. Dimensions: plate: 5 3/4 x 3 15/16 in. (14.6 x 10 cm) sheet: 9 1/16 x 6 15/16 in. (23 x 17.7 cm) plate: 5 13/16 x 3 15/16 in. (14.8 x 10 cm).

Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Credit line: Rogers Fund, 1916.

This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.

Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.

Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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