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A 1915 film shows sculptor Auguste Rodin at work, two years before his death
Rare footage from 1915 captures Auguste Rodin working in his studio, filmed just two years before his death in 1917.
A rare film from 1915 captures sculptor Auguste Rodin working, taken just two years before his death. The footage runs across several sequences, showing Rodin directly in his studio environment.
It joins similar rare short films of his contemporaries Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Claude Monet, and Edgar Degas. Together, these films form an unusual moving-image archive of the era's most influential artists.
Why it mattersMoving-image records of major artists from the early 20th century are exceptionally rare; footage of Rodin at work offers a direct connection to his creative process.
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