Until the 23rd of August, the Rodin Museum honors portraiture through the exhibition ‘The Making of the portrait, Rodin meet his models’. It highlights the creative process and the artist’s approach in the construction of his final work.
Claire de Choiseul, study, earthenware
Moulded out of the same clay, the faces of Baudelaire, Clemenceau, Balzac, stand alongside those of the bourgeois of the late 19th century. On this occasion, the Rodin museum took out of its reserves many restored pieces, some of which are shown to the public for the first time.
Madame Garnier, earthenware
Public or private, commemorative or intimate, the sculptor has created throughout his career portraits of great diversity – artists, politicians, bankers, loved women, socialites, French and foreign, every last one of these faces, contemporary of Rodin, immortalized and presented in one exhibition.
Moreover, to visit the Rodin museum at this time of the year is a must, for the park is blooming and a nice restaurant welcomes you in an remarkable setting, strewn with Rodin’s masterpieces…
Musée Rodin
79 rue de Varennes
75007 Paris
Tel: 01 44 18 61 10
Through 23rd of August 2009