Madeleine Jouvray

Daughter of cardboard manufacturers, Madeleine Jouvray moved in the early 1880s to 121 bis rue Notre-Dame-des-Champs. She shared a studio with Camille Claudel and other women sculptors at number 117 on the same street and attended classes at the Académie Colarossi. She later settled on rue Blomet, where she shared a studio with her friend Sigrid af Forselles, and earned a living by teaching modeling and drawing. Between 1883 and 1909, she was both a student and assistant to Rodin.

Madeleine Jouvray

Madeleine Jouvray (1862-1935), Danaïde, before 1935, marble, private collection © Camille Claudel Museum, photo Philippe Migeat

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