Rodin, AUGUSTE, the foremost of contemporary French sculptors, was born at Paris in 1840, studied under Barye, and began to exhibit in the Salon in 1875. He has produced great scriptural and symbolical groups, but is best known by his portrait busts and statues, notably the bust and the monument of Victor Hugo. See Monkhouse in the Portfolio (1887); and Brownell, French Art (1894).
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