Pierre Boulat
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Auguste Rodin - Les Brillants
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The villa Brillants in Meudon that Rodin acquired in 1894 and where he worked until his death. -
Auguste Rodin - Les Brillants
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The dining-room - A large painting by the painter Falguiere adorns the dining room of the villa. The sculptor's table was always in bloom and he used to place the work he was working on until it was finished. -
Auguste Rodin - Les Brillants
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Rodin's workshop. Some of his finest plasters are now exposed: on the right, on a base, the first version of "Ugolin devouring his children". Through the windows we discover today the large buildings of Sèvres. -
Auguste Rodin - Les Brillants
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"The bourgeois of Calais", "The legends of the centuries", "The door of Hell", surmounted by its three "Shadows" ... Since 1930, striking sketches of major masterpieces by sculptor sleep in a huge shed in the back of the gardens, -
Auguste Rodin - Les Brillants
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In the garden « John of Aire » -
Auguste Rodin - Les Brillants
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The Thinker. Having bought the facade of the castle of Issy set on fire in 1871, Rodin replaced the peristyle and the pediment in his garden. It is in front of this portico that he was buried, with his wife Rose Beuret, in a tomb on which "The thinker" was placed. -
Auguste Rodin - Les Brillants
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The Thinker. Having bought the facade of the castle of Issy set on fire in 1871, Rodin replaced the peristyle and the pediment in his garden. It is in front of this portico that he was buried, with his wife Rose Beuret, in a tomb on which "The thinker" was placed. -
Auguste Rodin - Les Brillants
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The Thinker. Having bought the facade of the castle of Issy set on fire in 1871, Rodin replaced the peristyle and the pediment in his garden. It is in front of this portico that he was buried, with his wife Rose Beuret, in a tomb on which "The thinker" was placed.
Inspired Homes / 3 – Auguste Rodin’s
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A rural retreat : the villa Brillants in Meudon near Paris
It is to escape Camille Claudel that Rodin decides to settle in 1894, with his faithful companion Rose Beuret, in this house, on the heights of Meudon Val-Fleury, where until his death in 1917, will accumulate the honors, rush the collectors and hurry the muses
The house was poorly heated, very simply furnished but Rodin felt good. He had arranged the garden, populating swans peacocks water lawns, erecting, at the end of an alley, his famous statue of Balzac, elsewhere, Greco-Roman sculptures which he collected.
The greatest sculptors of his time went to work with him and thousands of plasters are still kept in reserve today, far from the eyes of the public.
