Auguste Rodin: The Man - His Ideas - His Works

by Camille Mauclair

This, of course, is a very cursory list, and includes only collections in Paris.

I must add separately to the works published about Rodin those for which I am responsible: (1) a study, called "The Art of M. Rodin," Revue des Revues, 15th June, 1898; this has been approved by the artist, and very frequently reproduced. (2) A lecture delivered on the 31st of July, 1900, at the Rodin exhibition, and published by La Plume, with four unpublished drawings. (3) An essay upon the surroundings, personality, and influence of Rodin, which appeared in the Revue Universelle in 1901, and has likewise been reprinted, particularly in the Maîtres Artistes (special number, 15th October, 1903).

The high price of the work published by Messrs. Goupil (A Hundred and Fort-two Drawings by Rodin) prevents that fine volume from being accessible to the public. The amateur photographer Druet has taken photographs of all Rodin's work, which are rather misty, but which render admirably the caressing touch of light on the main planes, and which in a measure reproduce the artistic atmosphere of the statues. Messrs. Haweis and Coles have likewise taken some beautiful and curious proofs. More classic, but also more definite, are the fine photographs which the art publisher Buloz has recently taken, and which have been employed to illustrate this volume.

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PORTRAITS

There is a remarkable portrait of Rodin by Mr. John Sargent (dating from about twenty years ago). Another, by M. Alphonse Legros (a profile), is more of a fancy head, and wears a sort of tiara. A more recent portrait has been produced by Mr. Alexander. There is a very forcible bust by Mile. Camille Claudel, as well as a bust by J. Desbois, a lithograph by Eugène Carrière, and some amusing studio sketches by Mile. Cladel. An interesting lithograph of "Rodin in his Studio," by W. Rothenstein, appeared in the Artist-Engraver, April, 1904.

A curious photograph, taken by M. Steichen; a poster for the Rodin exhibition, containing a portrait, and drawn by Carrière; and some excellent photographs taken at Prague (of which the one here reproduced is astonishingly faithful) complete this list of likenesses.

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INDEX
Achilles, The Education of, [33]
Adam (destroyed), [14]
Adonis, The Death of, [33]
Age of Brass, The, [7], [8], [9], [10], [11], [51], [60], [75], [135]
Antiope (of Correggio), The, [91]
Antique, The, influence of, on Rodin, [27];
Rodin's analysis of, [74]-[80];
its right use, [74]-[77];
its truth and beauty, [78], [79]
Aphrodite (by Lucien Schnegg), [111]
Apollo, the two reliefs, [32], [33], [85]
Aube, [121]
Autumn (stone), [86]
Avarice and Lewdness, [26]
Balzac, Statue of, [9], [11], [27], [34], [41], [43]-[51], [72],
[75], [82], [85], [104], [120], [130]
Barrias, [121]; his monument to Hugo, [20]
Bartholomé, [121]
Bartlett, [112]
Barye, [2], [39], [117], [121]
Bassier, Jean, [121]
Bastien-Lepage, Statue of, [29], [30], [49]
Baudelaire, [16], [17], [22], [24], [26], [42], [105], [113], [118], [119]
Beauvais, [1]
Becque, Henry, Bust of, [21];
dry-point portraits of, [92]
Bellona, [17]
Benedictions, The, [89]
Bergerat, M., Rodin's drawings for his book, [92]
Besnard, Mme., [121]
Boisbaudron, Lecoq de, [5], [93]
Boucher, the sculptor, [8]
Bourdelle, Emile, [111]
Broken Nose, The Man with the, [3], [4], [6], [7]
Brother and Sister, [31]
Brussels, [4], [5], [6], [7], [16], [28], [123]
Burghers of Calais, The, [15], [27], [28],
[30], [31], [33], [34]-[39], [49], [51], [120]
Burgundian sculptors, [38]
Busts, Rodin's portrait, [17], [18], [21], [29], [31], [33], [84]
Carcano, Marchioness of, [28]
Carpeaux, [39], [117], [121]
Carrier-Belleuse, [3], [4], [6], [8], [123]
Carrière, Eugène, [112], [113];
his opinion of Rodin's art, [131]-[133]
Caryatid, The, [31]
Celtic genius, The, [63]
Chaplin, [8]
Chappe, A statue of, [49] n.
Chapu, [8], [121]
Charpentier, Alexandre, [111]
Chartres, The cathedral of, [61]
Christ and the Magdalen, [33]
Christian Martyr, The, [88]
Cladel, Mlle., [70] n., [112], [130]
Classicism, Rodin's, [38], [59], [63]
Clodion, [117]
Clot, lithographer, [92]
Conqueror, A, holding a Statue of Victory, [40]
Corneille, [118]
Correggio, [91], [112]
Costume in sculpture, The question of, [47]-[50]
Couston, [117]
Coysevox, [117]
Crouching Man, The, [33]
Dalou, [121], [133]; Rodin's bust of, [18], [31]
Dampt, Jean, [121]
Danaid, The, [28]
Dante, [8], [16], [21], [22], [23], [26], [93], [96], [119]
David of Angers, [18]
Devillez, [121]
Day, [88]
Delacroix, [81]
Delaplanche, [8]
Desbois, [7], [111]
Donatello, [31], [66], [84], [120]
Drawings and sketches, Rodin's, [18], [21], [28], [40], [58], [91]-[100]
Dream-Group, [29]
Dry-points, Rodin's, [92]
Dubois, Paul, [8], [121]
Duhem, Henri, [130]
Dujalbert, [121]
Dutch painting, [66]
Egyptian sculpture, [59]
Eiffel Tower, [80]
Emerson quoted, [82]
Erotic subjects, Rodin's treatment of, [98]-[100]
Etchings, Rodin's, [19], [21]
Eternal Idol, The, [40], [85]
Eve, [14]
Exhibited works, [7], [10], [16], [17], [19], [21], [28], [30], [83], [84], [88]
Exhibition with Claude Monet, the, [30]
Fagel, [7]
Falconet, [117] ??
Falguière, [8], [121];
his "Balzac," [44], [45];
Rodin's bust of, [31], [45]
Faun and Nymph,86
Fauns and Bacchantes, [30]
Fenaille, Bust of Mme., [84]
Fenaille, M., [40]; his edition of
Rodin's drawings, [92], [95]
Fiennes, Jean de, [35]
Finish, False notions of, [61], [115]
Flemish primitives, [6], [38]
Fleurs du Mal, Baudelaire's, [16];
Rodin's illustrations to, [92]
Florence Baptistery Gates, as model of The Gate of Hell, [22]
France, Anatole, [129], [130], [133]
Franck, Medallion of Cæsar, [33]
Frémiet, [121]
Fuller, Loïe, [79] n.
Galatea, [33]
Gallé, Emile, [31], [33]
Gallimard, M., [92]
Gardet, [121]
Gate of Hell, The, [9], [14], [15], [21]-[27], [29], [30], [41], [83], [88], [120]
Genius of War, The, [17]
Gluck, [105]
Gothic sculptures, Rodin's study of, [6], [27], [38], [61], [63]
Goujon, [122]
Greek sculpture, [59], [60]
Guillaume, [121]
Hand of God, The, [85]
Hecuba, [29]
Helmet-maker, The Fair, [29]
Henley, W. E., [17], [122], [131];
his opinion of Rodin's art, [133]-[134]
Hokusai, [98]
Houdon, [117]
Hugo, Victor, Bust of, [18], [31], [84];
dry-point portraits of, [92];
the Monument to, [15], [19], [30], [40], [50], [72], [83]
Icarus, [85]
Illusion, the Daughter of Icarus, [33]
Inferno, Dante's, [16], [22]
Inspiration, [86]
Iris, [19]
Italy, Rodin's travels in, [55], [65], [75]
Japanese bronzes and prints, Rodin's admiration of, [87], [99]
Jasmin, Clément, [94]
Joan of Arc, Rude's, [118]
Kiss, The, [23] n., [29], [73]
Labour, Monument to, [88], [89]
Lamartine, [46]
Laurens, Jean Paul, Bust of, [31]
Lavoisier, A statue of, [49] n.
Lefèvre, Camille, [7], [121]
Legros, Alphonse, [5], [108]; bust of, [17]
Lorraine, Claude, The Monument to, [29], [31], [32], [49]
Louvre, the, [38], [78]
Love and Psyche, [85]
Lovers, Groups of, [85]
Luxembourg, The, [7], [20], [23] n., [29], [135]
Lynch, Statue of, [17], [49]
MacColl, D. S., [130], [133]
Magdalen, The, [85]
Mahomet (drawing), [95]
Mallarmé, Stéphane, [69], [102]
Manet, [52], [121]
Man Walking, [28]
Man with the Broken Nose, The (clay head), [3], [4], [6];
(marble), [7]
Marseillaise, Rude's, [118]
Marx, Roger, [31], [33], [130];
bust of, [29]
Meditation, [19]
Meudon, Rodin's house and studio at, [13], [108], [109]
Michael Angelo, [23], [62], [63], [64], [65], [66], [73], [117] n., [122]
Minerva (helmeted bust), [84];
(marble and silver), [40]
Minne, George, [112]
Mirbeau, Octave, [114] n.;
bust of, [29];
medallion of, [34];
Rodin's drawings for his books, [92]
Monet, Claude, [30]
Monument to the Defenders of the Nation, [14]
Morbidezza, [91]
Mother, The Young, [31]
Muse of Anger, [19], [40]
Muse of the Inner Voice, [19], [40]
Museums, [135]
Nancy, [29], [32], [33]
Naples Museum, [74], [99]
Napoleon Awakening to Immortality,
Rude's, [118]
Neo-Greek School, Errors and defects of, [75], [79]
Nereids, The, [86]
Niederhausern-Rodo, [112]
Night, [88]
Nude, The, [11], [90], [91]
Nymph, A, [31]
Orpheus and Eurydice, [33], [90]
Paintings, Rodin's, [93]
Pajou, [117]
Pantheon, The, [20]
Perseus and the Gorgon, [28]
Pica, Vittorio, [133]
Pigalle, [117]
Pilon, Germain, [116]
Poe, [119]
Poet and the Life of Contemplation, The, [40]
Poets and Muses, [85]
Préault, Auguste, [133]
Private Collections, [137]
Proust, Antonin, Bust of, [18];
dry-point of, [92]
Psyche, [85]
Puech, Denys, [121]
Puget, [117], [118], [119], [120], [122], [135]
Puvis de Chavannes, [84]; bust of, [31];
monument to, [89], [90]
Pygmalion, [86]
Raphael, [66], [81]
Redon, Odilon, [97]
Rembrandt, [78], [81]
Renascence, Rodin's admiration for the, [63]-5
Rimini, Paolo and Francesca da, [22], [23]
Rivière, Théodore, [121]
Rochefort, Bust of, [31]
Roche, Pierre, in, [112]
Rodin, Auguste, birth, parentage, and schooling, [1];
early art-training, [1], [2];
under Barye, [2];
works for ornament-maker, [2], [3];
in Carrier-Belleuse's studio, [3], [4];
early works in sculpture, [3], [4], [6];
goes to Brussels, [4]; work there, [4], [5], [6], [7];
friendship with Legros, [5];
takes painting lessons from Lecoq de Boisbaudron, [5];
accepted at Salon, [7];
accused of casting from life, [7], [11];
his first sale, [7];
cleared of accusations, [8];
sudden emergence from obscurity, [9], [10];
slow development, [9];
attitude to academic art, [10], [38], [69];
his originality and power noticed, [11], [12];
studios granted him by Government, [13];
works at Sèvres, [13], [70];
his stay in Brussels a formative time, [4], [5], [6], [16], [27], [123];
deeply impressed by Dante and Baudelaire, [16] (and see under these names);
monument to Hugo described, [15], [19], [20];
impatience of officialism, [21], [34];
Gate of Hell described, [21]-[27];
exhibition with Claude Monet in 1889, [30];
monument to Claude Lorraine described, [32];
Burghers of Calais described, [34]-[39];
friendship with M. Fenaille, [40];
the Balzac and the controversy it excited, [44]-[52], [104], [105], [130];
visits to Italy, [55], [65], [75]; articles
in the Musée quoted at length, [74]-[80];
at the Paris Exhibition of 1900, [83];
visit to Prague, [84]; welcomed in London, [84];
elected President of the International Society, [84];
honours, [105];
personal appearance, [101];
portraits of him, [108], [139];
private life and home, [107]-[109];
house and studios, [13], [107]-[110];
tastes, [105], [106];
travels, [55], [65], [75], [84], [107];
as a talker, [102], [103];
social opinions, [107];
influence, [113], [114];
friends and pupils, [111], [112];
characteristics of his art, [115], [116];
artistic descent and affinities, [116]-[119];
place in the French school, [113]-122;
lost works, [17] n.;
paintings, [93];
dry-points, [92];
drawings and treatment of voluptuous subjects, [98]-[100];
photographs of his works, [138], [139];
essentially a poet, [68],69; as thinker, [87];
classicism, his, [38], [59], [63];
his symbolism, [65], [87];
his composition, [43];
his conception of his art analysed, [52]-[81];
fondness for small groups, [41], [42];
his treatment of costume, [46], [49];
his treatment of flesh, [37], [42];
his principles of portraiture, [47], [48];
his endeavour to give atmosphere, [56], [57];
his works treated to be viewed from all sides, [37], [43], [54]-6;
his modelling, [28], [42], [65], [89], [90];
his study and power of representing movement, [27], [42], [43], [53], [54];
dynamic character of his art, [27], [42], [43];
his synthetic power, [16], [32], [38], [60], [61], [69], [115];
his veracity, [36], [37];
his favourite type of woman, [42];
influence and value of the antique, [27], [55], [74]-[80]
Ronde, The (dry-point), [92]
Rops. [45], [99]
Rosso, [112]
Rousseau, [105]
Rubens, [93], [100]
Rude, [4], [39], [117], [118], [119], [120], [135]
St. John Baptist, [7], [8], [10], [11]
St. John Baptist (torso), [31]
St. John, Head of the Beheaded (marble), [28], [30]
Saint Marceaux, [121]
St. Pierre, Eustacede, [34], [35]
Salon, the, [7], [30], [43], [44], [83], [84], [88], [111]
Sappho, [86]
Sargent, [108]
Sarmiento, Monument to President, [41], [85].
Schnegg, Gaston and Lucien, [111]
Séverine, Bust of Madame, [33]
Sèvres, [13], [14], [70]
Shades, The, [22], [83]
Société des Gens de Lettres, [44]
Spring, Eternal, [33]
Spring, [85]
Summer, [86]
Tanagra figures, [80]
Thinker, The, [22], [23], [26], [84], [88]
Thomas, [8]
Thought, [29]
Torso (nude female bronze), [88]
Turquet, [7], [8]
Ugolino, [16], [17], [26], [88]; (drawing), [95]
Values in painting and sculpture, [56], [57]
Van der Meer, [66]
Van Rasbourg, [4], [6]
Venus and Adonis, [33]
Vicunha, Monument to the President, [17]
Villon, [29]
Wagner, [119], [120]
Watteau, [81]
Wave, The, [33]
Whistler, [84], [105]
Wissant, Jacques and Pierre de, [36]
Woman, Bust of, [84]
Woman, Bust of a Young, [17]
Woman, Bust of a Young (silver) [31]
Women and Children, [86]
Women Bathing, [41]
Women Damned, [30], [87]