Rose Beuret

Rose Beuret (French pronunciation: [ʁoz bøʁɛ]; born Marie Rose Beuret; 9 June 1844 – 14 February 1917[1]) was a French seamstress and laundress, known to have been one of the muses and, for 53 years, the companion of Auguste Rodin, whom she married just weeks before her death in 1917.

Beuret met Rodin in 1864 while he was working on the pediment of the Théâtre des Gobelins [fr].

On Sundays, the young lovers took long walks in the woods and the countryside near Paris.

[2] Despite Rodin having had numerous liaisons (Camille Claudel,[5] Gwen John, and the American-born Duchesse de Choiseul, from 1907 to 1912[6]), the two married on 29 January 1917 in Meudon,[7] sixteen days before her death.

[8] Beuret was Rodin's model several times, testifying to his stylistic evolution, from Jeune fille au chapeau fleuri [fr] in 1865, still influenced by Carrier-Belleuse, Mignon in 1869–1870, then Bellone, executed in 1878 after his return from Belgium.