A bronze after Rodin's study for his 'Monument to Balzac', the large realist bronze portraying French novelist Honore de Balzac (1799-1,850) as a nude, corpulent figure standing with crossed arms in the stance of a wrestler, after Rodin's 1892 'Type C' study for his commissioned statue of Balzac, in attractive dark brown patina with green tones, signed 'A. Rodin' and numbered, apparently no foundry mark, mounted on a marble base. Height 75 cm, width 40 cm, depth 55 cm