Auguste RodinFrench, 1840–1917Détails de voussures
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Where is “Détails de voussures” now? Collection: Musée Rodin, Paris. Unknown.
Paris, France
The owner is known; whether it is on view today is not.
- In this state since
- Source
- The museum
About the work
Museum text in French
Folio 27 recto du carnet 28 (D. 6560 à 6597). Au verso du folio 27 : dessin D. 6586.
Musée Rodin
Details
- Accession number
- D 6585
What it shows
In the catalog
Sources
- Musée Rodin
- Image: Musée Rodin — © Jean de Calan; Ministère de la Culture (France), base Joconde
In the life of Auguste Rodin
The whole life1890s–1900s
Young sculptors in Rodin's studio
His income let him hire gifted young sculptors, among them Antoine Bourdelle, Charles Despiau, Jules Desbois, François Pompon and Aristide Maillol. Constantin Brancusi left after two months, convinced that nothing grows under a big tree.
1900s
Portraits of the famous and the rich
Rodin began to receive regular commissions for portraits; his clients included Bernard Shaw, Gustav Mahler, Georges Clemenceau, the Argentine president Sarmiento, the chemist Berthelot and the philanthropist Bertha Palmer. Clemenceau was displeased: he thought the portrait looked like a “Mongol general”.
1907 · Award
Honorary doctor of the University of Oxford
1908
Moves into the Hôtel Biron
Rilke invited Rodin to the eighteenth-century mansion where he rented rooms; Rodin liked it so much that he took the ground floor, moved his studio there and lived there for his last years.
16 May 1910 · Award
Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour
1914
A gift to Britain
Encouraged by the enthusiasm of British artists, students and high society for his art, Rodin donated a selection of his works to the nation in 1914.
