Which sculpture did Auguste Rodin create as a tribute to the French painter Claude Lorrain?

The Monument to Claude Lorrain was Auguste Rodin’s tribute to the French painter Claude Lorrain.

Claude Lorrain was a seventeenth-century painter famous for idealized landscape compositions and luminous atmospheric effects. Rodin’s monument honored him in the town of Chamagne, in Lorraine, where Lorrain was traditionally believed to have been born.

The project shows Rodin working beyond the better-known subjects of literary figures, civic heroes, and anonymous bodies. His public monuments often converted biographical remembrance into a highly expressive sculptural presence rather than a literal, neutral likeness.

Rodin created monuments to several major cultural figures, including Victor Hugo and Honoré de Balzac. Those projects are easy to confuse because they were also literary or artistic memorials, but Claude Lorrain was a painter, not a writer or sculptor.