CAMILLE CLAUDEL: THE GENIUS RODIN CLAIMED AS HIS OWN

Camille Claudel entered Rodin's studio as a pupil and left history as a footnote: the muse, the lover, the madwoman. But we've just published her biography, and there's one detail we can't shake off: hands cast in bronze and signed by Rodin that look far too much like what she was already signing with her own name years earlier.

The honest thing is to say it plainly: there's no document that settles who sculpted what. Historians are still at odds. And that's where the discomfort lies, because the same man who discovered and trained her also closed doors on her and kept silent when her family had her committed.

If Rodin was both a genuine mentor and a thief of credit, where do you draw the line between shaping someone and devouring them?

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