Her younger brother Paul Claudel was born there in 1868. The family moved to Villeneuve-sur-Fère while Camille was still a baby. Her mother, the former Louise-Athanaïse Cécile Cerveaux, came from a Champagne family of Catholic farmers and priests. Her father, Louis-Prosper Claudel, dealt in mortgages and bank transactions. Early years Ĭamille Claudel was born in Fère-en-Tardenois, Aisne, in northern France, the first child of a family of farmers and gentry. Sculptures created by Claudel are also held in the collections of several major museums including the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, the Courtauld Institute of Art in London, the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C., the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the J. Claudel was a longtime associate of sculptor Auguste Rodin, and the Musée Rodin in Paris has a room dedicated to her works. The national Camille Claudel Museum in Nogent-sur-Seine opened in 2017. The subject of several biographies and films, Claudel is well known for her sculptures including The Waltz and The Mature Age. She died in relative obscurity, but later gained recognition for the originality and quality of her work. Camille Rosalie Claudel ( French pronunciation: ( listen) 8 December 1864 – 19 October 1943) was a French sculptor known for her figurative works in bronze and marble.
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