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== Personal life == [[File:Musée Bourdelle (Paris) (12706562345).jpg|thumb|upright|Photo (c. 1913) of Antoine Bourdelle with spouse Cléopâtre Sevastos, and daughter Rhodia Dufet Bourdelle.|alt=Photo ( c. 1913) of Antoine Bourdelle with Cléopâtre Sevastos, Rhodia Dufet Bourdelle.]] In 1904, Bourdelle married artist Stephanie van Parys (also known as Vanparys, 1877–1945).<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|last=Karel|first=David|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xojsRTC5ttcC|title=Dictionnaire des artistes de langue française en Amérique du Nord: peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs, graveurs, photographes, et orfèvres|publisher=Presses Université Laval|year=1992|isbn=9782763772356|pages=114|language=fr|trans-title=Dictionary of French-speaking artists in North America : painters, sculptors, designers, printmakers, photographers, and goldsmiths}}</ref> His wife often served as a model for Bourdelle; by 1910 they had divorced.<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Jianu|first1=Ionel|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OHfqAAAAMAAJ|title=Bourdelle|last2=Dufet|first2=Miche|publisher=Arted, Éditions d'Art|year=1978|series=The great sculptors series|isbn=9782850670527}}</ref> Together with van Parys they had a son, Pierre Bourdelle (c.1903–1966) and Pierre became an artist most active in the United States, and notable for his work at [[Cincinnati Union Terminal]] in 1933.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web|title=Pierre Bourdelle Papers An inventory of his Papers at Syracuse University|url=https://library.syr.edu/digital/guides/b/bourdelle_p.htm|access-date=2020-06-12|website=Syracuse University, Library Special Collection}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=July 27, 1958|title=Post College's Artist, Man of Action As Well|url=http://www.newspapers.com/newspage/456349704/|access-date=2020-06-12|website=Newspapers.com|publisher=Daily News from New York, New York|page=278|language=en}}</ref> Bourdelle married in 1918 his former art student, Cléopâtre Sevastos (1882–1972), who also served as his model.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Bourdelle-Sevastos, Cleopatra 1882-1972|url=http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-nr2006010900/|website=WorldCat|quote=In 1906, Cleopatra Sévastos made the trip from Athens to Paris to study sculpture in the studio of Antoine Bourdelle, who married her a few years later.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=December 12, 2013|title=The exhibition "Intimate Bourdelle" opens up a new perspective on the workshop of Antoine Bourdelle (1861-1929)|url=http://www.unsa-education.com/Bourdelle-intime|access-date=2020-06-12|website=www.unsa-education.com|publisher=UNSA Education}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Cleopatre Bourdelle, the wife of artist and sculptor Antoine Bourdelle, speaks of her husbands life and art.; part 1|url=https://studsterkel.wfmt.com/programs/cleopatre-bourdelle-wife-artist-and-sculptor-antoine-bourdelle-speaks-her-husbands-life|access-date=2020-06-12|website=The WFMT Studs Terkel Radio Archive|language=en}}</ref> Together with Sevastos they had a daughter, Rhodia Bourdelle (her married name was Dufet, Dufet–Bourdelle, 1911–2002) and she was an art curator.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Jacobs|first=Emma|title=The Little(r) Museums of Paris: An Illustrated Guide to the City's Hidden Gems|publisher=Hachette UK|year=2019|isbn=9780762466405}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Letter from Rhodia Dufet Bourdelle to Alan Wurtzburger, July 1, 1962|url=https://collections.digitalmaryland.org/digital/collection/bawu/id/12/|access-date=2020-06-12|website=collections.digitalmaryland.org|publisher=E. Kirkbride Miller Art Research Library, Baltimore Museum of Art|quote=In this letter from Rhodia Dufet Bourdelle, daughter of Emile Antoine Bourdelle,}}</ref>
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