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Claudel's reputation survived not because of her once notorious association with Rodin, but because of her work. The novelist and art critic [[Octave Mirbeau]] described her as "A revolt against nature: a woman genius."<ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-07-02|title=Camille Claudel, une icône au destin tragique|url=https://www.connaissancedesarts.com/peinture-et-sculpture/camille-claudel-icone-au-destin-tragique-11142437/|access-date=2020-09-29|website=Connaissance des Arts|language=fr}}</ref> Her early work is similar to Rodin's in spirit but shows imagination and lyricism quite her own, particularly in the famous ''[[The Waltz (Claudel)|The Waltz]]'' (1893).
 
The contemporary French critic Louis Vauxcelles statesstated that Claudel was the only sculptress on whose forehead shone the sign of genius like [[Berthe Morisot]], the only well-known female painter of the century, and that Claudel's style was more virile than many of her male colleagues'. Others, like Morhardt and Caranfa, concurred, saying that their styles had become so different, with Rodin being more soft and delicate and Claudel being vehement with vigorous contrasts, which might have been one reason for their break up, with her becoming ultimately his rival.{{sfn|Elsen|Jamison|2003|p=308}}{{sfn|Vollmer|2007|p=249}}<ref>{{cite book|last1=Rodin|first1=Auguste|last2=Crone|first2=Rainer|last3=Salzmann|first3=Siegfried|title=Rodin: Eros and creativity|date=1997|publisher=Prestel|isbn=9783791318097|page=41}}</ref>
 
As historian Farah Peterson describes, Claudel's ''Clotho,'' exhibited at the 1893 Salon of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, serves as an "important example of how sharply Claudel’s vision diverged from Rodin’s."<ref>{{cite news|last1=Peterson|first1=Farah|title=Camille Claudel’s ‘Revolt Against Nature’|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/01/camille-claudel-sculptor-rodin-chicago-art-institute-exhibit/676148/|website=The Atlantic|location=New York|date=2023}}</ref>