Jules Dalou
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Aimé-Jules Dalou was a 19th-century French sculptor, admired for his perceptiveness, execution, and unpretentious realism.
Jules Dalou in his studio, 1899
Detail of the Triumph of the Republic, 1899, Place de la Nation, Paris
The Reader, plaster statuette, circa 1871–1879. Petit Palais Museum
Bust of Albert Ludovici, Sr., 1873, at the Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco
Auguste Rodin
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François Auguste René Rodin was a French sculptor generally considered the founder of modern sculpture. He was schooled traditionally and took a craftsman-like approach to his work. Rodin possessed a
Jules Dalou
…refused the Prix de Rome that opened sculptors' careers to future official commissions. He started to work for decorators, and through this work met Auguste Rodin and began their friendship. He made a quiet living providing decorative sculpture for the structures that lined Paris's new boulevards and providing…
Portrait photograph by George Charles Beresford, 1902
Rodin c. 1862
Auguste Rodin, John Singer Sargent, 1884
Rodin, c. 1875–80