Exhibition: These contemporary sculptresses of Camille Claudel
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Danaïde. Before 1935. Marble. Sculpture by Madeleine Jouvray . Camille Claudel Museum / P. Migeat
At the end of the 19th century, many women in Paris, defying prejudice, took up sculpture. Thanks to the work of art historian Anne Rivière, the Camille Claudel Museum in Nogent-sur-Seine is bringing to light some twenty of these women, renowned in their time.
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Portrait of Jane Poupelet, a contemporary sculptor of Camille Claudel, known for her female nudes and animal sculptures. Camille Claudel Museum / DR
Short-haired and smoking a cigarette, Jane Poupelet (1874-1932) was ten years younger than Camille Claudel and already had one foot in the modern world. The first woman admitted to the Bordeaux School of Arts, before joining the Académie Julian, she was also a student of the Bordeaux sculptor Lucien Schnegg and gravitated in the orbit of Rodin and Bourdelle.
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