title: La Defense (sculpture)
text: # La Defense (sculpture)
  
  La Defense, also known as The Call to Arms, is a sculpture by Auguste Rodin.
  
  ## History
  
  Rodin created a model for a competition for a monument to the siege of Paris in 1870 during the Franco-Prussian War. It was rejected in favor of a bronze sculpture by Louis-Ernest Barrias. Later, it was enlarged to four times its size to be used as a monument in Verdun.
  
  ## Description
  
  The bronze sculpture in the Portland Art Museum's Evan H. Roberts Memorial Sculpture Collection was modeled in 1879 and cast c. 1910, and measures 44 in x 23 in x 16 inches.
  
  * Response to the competition
  * Monument in Verdun
  * Sculpture at the Portland Art Museum
  