Clementina Black With Forty Plates
New York
E. P. Dutton & Co.
1905
To Eugène Carrière and Roger Marx
MY DEAR FRIENDS,
One of you is a great painter, whose art and mind are fraternally akin to Rodin’s. The other is the first French Art critic of our day, and has nobly defended Rodin from the outset.
For these reasons I felt it just and natural to dedicate this book to both of you, as a testimony of my affection, given in the presence of the English public, and under the auspices of a name that unites all three of us in the love of beauty.
C. M.
The photographs used as illustrations to the present volume are kindly lent by M. Buloz, art publisher of Paris, to whom we offer our sincere thanks; and for five of them—very remarkable in their effect (the Bellona, the bust of Hugo, the two studies of torsos for the St. John the Baptist, and the Fair Woman who was a Helmet-maker) we are indebted to Messrs. Haweis and Coles, to whom we are no less grateful. The very faithful portrait of M. Rodin is the work of M. Eckert, of Prague.