La Joueuse de Flute (1903 - 1905). In 1905, 12 years after Claudel's famous sculpture La Valse was exhibited at the Paris Salon, La Joueuse de Flute was also admitted to this important annual exhibition. The preceding year, Claudel wrote to bronze caster Blot that she had modeled a petite faunesse and that she had become enormously attached to her sirene. She was a contemporary of Auguste Rodin and his lover.
