Jane Poupelet

The first woman admitted to the Municipal School of Arts and Decorative Arts of Bordeaux (France), Jane Poupelet trained in the 1890s under Denis Puech and Lucien Schnegg and frequented the circles of Rodin and Bourdelle. She specialized in animal statuettes and female nudes with idealized forms. Attached to the American Red Cross during World War I, she modeled prosthetics and masks for the “gueules cassées” (disfigured veterans).

Discover this artist as part of the exhibition In the Time of Camille Claudel, Being a Woman Sculptor in Paris