Musée Camille Claudel, Art museum in Nogent-sur-Seine, France
The Musée Camille Claudel is an art museum in Nogent-sur-Seine, a small town southeast of Paris, dedicated to the sculptor Camille Claudel and her contemporaries. It holds around forty sculptures by Claudel herself alongside works by other French artists active in the decades around 1900.
The Musée Camille Claudel opened in 2017 as the first museum devoted entirely to her work, coming more than a century after she had largely disappeared from public life. The collection was built over decades from works gathered by collectors and institutions after her name had faded following her confinement in 1913.
Camille Claudel grew up in Nogent-sur-Seine, and the town has kept a close connection to her work. The sculptures on display show how she portrayed bodies in motion and emotion, often in ways that were unusually direct for her time.
The museum sits in the center of Nogent-sur-Seine and can be reached on foot from the train station in a few minutes. It is worth checking closing days before you go, as the museum is not open every day of the week.
Although Claudel was for a long time known mainly as a student and companion of Auguste Rodin, the museum takes care to show how independent her style was before and beyond that relationship. Visitors who follow the works in order can notice a personal approach that stands apart from Rodin's own output.
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