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Auguste Rodin
John Singer Sargent American
Not on view
Sargent probably met renowned sculptor Auguste Rodin (1840–1917) in Paris in the early 1880s. They continued to meet socially for several decades and later had patrons in common. In 1902, Rodin would declare that Sargent was "the Van Dyck of our times," referring to the great seventeenth-century Flemish portraitist.
By August 1884 Rodin was reportedly working on a bust of Sargent. It was probably not completed. Sargent paints Rodin as a venerable figure. There is nothing to distract from his finely modeled head, which emerges with bright highlights from a dark and sober background.
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