Camille Claudel

Camille Claudel created "The Mature Age" in 1894–1900. There are two versions of the sculpture, one made of plaster and cast in bronze and the other made of solid bronze and is currently on exhibit the Musée d'Orsay and at the Musée Rodin in Paris, France. The sculpture comes when Claudel and Rodin's relationship ended after he refused to marry Camille. She takes her anguish in losing her lover and transforms it into this piece, which allegedly made Rodin very upset. While she is on the floor, begging him to come back, he is turned around to return to his long time girlfriend, "Rose". She deems this work an "autobiographical" and explains all of this in letters she wrote to her brother, and poet, Paul Claudel.