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Camille Claudel (8 December 1864 – 19 October 1943)
was a French sculptor and graphic artist.
She was the older sister of the French poet and diplomat, Paul Claudel.
Though she destroyed much of her art work,
about 90 statues, sketches and drawings survive.
Fascinated with stone and soil as a child,
as a young woman she studied at the
Académie Colarossi with sculptor Alfred Boucher.
Around 1884, she started working in Rodin's workshop.
Claudel became a source of inspiration and his model.
Beginning in 1903,
she exhibited her own works at the Salon des Artistes français
or at the Salon d'Automne.
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