LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
ETERNAL SPRING (photogravure) [Frontispiece]
THE AGE OF BRASS [6]
THE AGE OF BRASS [9]
ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST PREACHING [10]
EVE [12]
SKETCH FOR THE MONUMENT TO THE DEFENDERS OF THE NATION [14]
UGOLINO AND HIS CHILDREN [16]
BELLONA [17]
BELLONA [17]
VICTOR HUGO (dry-point) [18]
VICTOR HUGO (dry-point) [18]
BUST OF VICTOR HUGO [21]
MONUMENT TO VICTOR HUGO (fragment) [21]
VICTOR HUGO (fragment) [21]
NEREIDS (group at base of the Victor Hugo monument) [24]
SHADES (for the top of The Gate of Hell) [25]
THE THINKER [27]
DANAID [28]
DANAID [28]
THOUGHT [28]
THE FAIR HELMET-MAKER [29]
A NYMPH (bronze) [30]
PUVIS DE CHAVANNES [33]
JEAN PAUL LAURENS [33]
BUST OF MADAME V. [34]
THE BURGHERS OF CALAIS [36]
A BURGHER OF CALAIS [39]
A BURGHER OF CALAIS [39]
A BURGHER OF CALAIS [39]
BALZAC [47]
BALZAC [49]
PRIMITIVE MAN [74]
YOUNG WOMAN BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL COUNSEL [78]
IRIS [88]
NUDE STUDY [89]
AUGUSTE RODIN [102]
CORNER OF RODIN'S STUDIO AT MEUDON [106]
CORNER OF RODIN'S STUDIO AT MEUDON [107]
STUDY IN BRONZE FOR THE "BALZAC" [110]
NUDE FIGURE (photographed in the open air, at twilight, in the garden in Meudon) [113]
[AUGUSTE RODIN]
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YOUTH AND EARLY WORK OF RODIN—HIS FIRST ATTEMPTS; HIS TIME AT CARRIER'S—HIS STAY IN BRUSSELS AND WORK THERE—"THE AGE OF BRASS" AT THE SALON OF 1877; THE INCIDENT ARISING IN REGARD TO IT—THE "ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST"; BEGINNING OF RODIN'S REPUTATION
Auguste Rodin was born in Paris, in the Val de Grâce quarter, on the 14th of November, 1840, of a family of humble employés. The child at first attended a day-school in the Rue Saint Jacques, then went to a boarding-school at Beauvais, kept by his uncle. At fourteen he returned to Paris and entered the school of art in the Rue de l'École de Médecine. A period of desperate industry at once set in for him.