Rodin, Baudelaire : l’Enfer et les Fleurs

This article discusses the ways in which Auguste Rodin came to associate the poetical universes of the Divine Comedy and Les Fleurs du Mal. It concentrates par- ticularly on the original edition that the bibliophile Paul Gallimard commissioned to Rodin, the different drawing techniques Rodin used, and the ways in which he drew on former sculptures for his monumental and unfinished Gates of Hell. It goes on to examine several drawings – Une Charogne, La Béatrice and Les Bijoux – that embody a peculiar link to Baudelaire's poetry.