Dimensions: 8. Some were probably destroyed by the artist in moments of distress. Representing scenes observed in everyday life, they are particularly influenced by Japanese art, discovered by the artist at the Universal Exhibition of and in the collections of Parisian art enthusiasts.
Reve au coin du feu was conceived in and the bronze was cast by Eugene Blot in , when he first exhibited the sculpture. The edition was not declared by Blot to be limited, and some of the edition feature numbers, while others do not.
The bronze was combined with either marble or onyx. This precise Reve au coin du feu edition was exhibited in at the Rodin Museum, Paris, where it was seen and declared authentic by Claudel authority Reine Marie Paris. It was also part of the internationally touring exhibition in and in Quebec, Switzerland, and Detroit.
Several versions of the edition are included in the major touring Claudel retrospective in at the Art Institute of Chicago and the J. Paul Getty Museum. It represents a woman kneeling in front of a fireplace and resting her head on its lintel. It appeared again, this time entirely in marble, at the Universal Exhibition in Paris. The second fireplace, Dream by the Fireside , studied here, represents a woman seated on a chair, her head resting on the lintel of the fireplace.
The following year, the work was exhibited in this same material at the Universal Exhibition held in Paris [4]. It is worth recalling the place occupied by Camille Claudel, aged thirty-five, in the French statute at the dawn of the 20th century.
