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Sculpture by Auguste Rodin
The Age of Bronze
Artist
Auguste Rodin (1840–1917) Year 1877 (first exhibited) Type Statue Medium Bronze Dimensions Life size
The Age of Bronze (
French : L'âge d'airain ) is a
bronze statue by the
French
sculptor
Auguste Rodin (1840–1917). The figure is of a life-size nude male, 72 in. (182.9 cm) high. Rodin continued to produce casts of the statue for several decades after it was modelled in 1876.
Rodin had a Belgian soldier pose for the statue, keeping photographs which survive (in the
Rodin Museum ). The pose partly derives from
Michelangelo 's
Dying Slave in the
Louvre Museum , which has the elbow raised above the head.[
citation needed ]
3D model, click to interact.
History
When the statue was first exhibited at the 1877
Salon in
Paris ,
France , Rodin was falsely accused of having made the statue by casting a living model, a charge that was vigorously denied. This charge benefited Rodin, though, because people were so eager to see this for themselves.[
citation needed ]
Casts
Casts of the statue can be found in many museums, including:
Institution
City
Country
Albright–Knox Art Gallery
[1]
Buffalo ,
New York
United States
Alte Nationalgalerie
Berlin
Germany
Museum Folkwang
Essen
Germany
Schlossmuseum
Weimar
Germany
Chiado Museum
Lisbon
Portugal
Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland ,
Ohio
United States
Columbus Museum of Art
Columbus ,
Ohio
United States
Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek
[2]
[3]
Copenhagen
Denmark
Nationalmuseum
[4]
Stockholm
Sweden
Honolulu Museum of Art
Honolulu ,
Hawaii
United States
Hugh Lane Gallery
Dublin
Ireland
Instituto Ricardo Brennand
Recife
Brazil
Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts ,
Stanford University
Stanford,
California
United States
Kunstmuseum
The Hague
Netherlands
Leeds Art Gallery
Leeds
England
Lycée Rodin, cour d'honneur
[5] [
circular reference ]
Paris
France
Maryhill Museum of Art
Maryhill ,
Washington
United States
Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York City ,
New York
United States
Middelheim Open Air Sculpture Museum
[6]
Antwerp
Belgium
Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Minneapolis ,
Minnesota
United States
Musée d'Orsay
[7]
Paris
France
Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon
Lyon
France
Musée Rodin
[8]
Paris
France
Museo Soumaya
Mexico City
Mexico
Museum of Fine Arts
Budapest
Hungary
Nasher Sculpture Center
[9]
Dallas ,
Texas
United States
National Gallery of Art
Washington, D.C.
United States
National Gallery of Canada
Ottawa ,
Ontario
Canada
National Museum of Western Art
[10]
Tokyo
Japan
New Orleans Museum of Art
New Orleans ,
Louisiana
United States
Princeton University Art Museum
Princeton ,
New Jersey
United States
Rodin Museum
Philadelphia ,
Pennsylvania
United States
Tokyo University of the Arts , The University Art Museum
[11]
Tokyo
Japan
Tokyo Fuji Art Museum
[12]
Tokyo
Japan
Victoria and Albert Museum
London
England
Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya
Barcelona
Spain
Burrell Collection
Glasgow
Scotland
Legion of Honor
San Francisco
United States
Queensland Art Gallery
[13]
Brisbane
Australia
Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna
Rome
Italy
Chrysler Museum of Art
[14]
Norfolk, Virginia
United States
Gallery
Plaster from 1877
Plaster, detail
Bronze cast
Bronze cast from 1876/1877 in Lyon
Detail of the bronze cast in the National Gallery of Canada, cast in 1901
See also
References
Bibliography
Le Normand-Romain, Antoinette; Judrin, Claude; Vassalo, I. (1997). Vers l'âge d'airain, Rodin en Belgique: Exposition . Paris:
Musée Rodin editions.
ISBN
978-2-901428-60-2 .
External links
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