The Age of Bronze

The Age of Bronze

French: L'Âge d'airain
The Age of Bronze, Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany (2006).
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.

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.

Casts of the statue can be found in several museums around the world, including:

Institution	City	Country
Albright–Knox Art Gallery[1]	Buffalo, New York	United States
Alte Nationalgalerie	Berlin	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
Honolulu Museum of Art	Honolulu, Hawaii	United States
Hugh Lane Gallery	Dublin	Ireland
Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University	Stanford, California	United States
Leeds Art Gallery	Leeds	England
Lycée Rodin, cour d'honneur[4]	Paris	France
Metropolitan Museum of Art	New York City, New York	United States
Middelheim Open Air Sculpture Museum[5]	Antwerp	Belgium
Minneapolis Institute of Arts	Minneapolis, Minnesota	United States
Musée d'Orsay[6]	Paris	France
Musée Rodin[7]	Paris	France
Museo Soumaya	Mexico City	Mexico
Museum of Fine Arts	Budapest	Hungary
Nasher Sculpture Center[8]	Dallas, Texas	United States
National Gallery of Canada	Ottawa, Ontario	Canada
National Museum of Western Art[9]	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
The University Art Museum-Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music[10]	Tokyo	Japan
Tokyo Fuji Art Museum[11]	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

Gallery

• 
  Plaster from 1887
• 
  Plaster, detail
• 
  Bronze cast

See also

• 1877 in art

References

1. "L'Age D'Airain (Age Of Bronze) > Search Our Fine Art Collection > Collection > Albright-Knox Art Gallery".
2. "Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek by Brian McMorrow".
3. "Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen, Denmark".
4. fr:Lycée Rodin
6. "Musée d'Orsay: Auguste Rodin The Bronze Age".
7. "The Age of Bronze - Rodin Museum".
8. Database (undated). "Auguste Rodin". Nasher Sculpture Center. Retrieved 3 May 2012.
9. "Auguste Rodin - The Age of Bronze - Collection - The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo".
10. "［ID:7584］ 青銅時代 ： 収蔵品情報 - 収蔵品データベース - 東京藝術大学大学美術館".
11. "Profile of Works - TOKYO FUJI ART MUSEUM".

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

• The Age of Bronze, Analysis and Critical Reception
• The Age of Bronze at the Musée Rodin
• The Age of Bronze at the Metropolitan Museum of Art