# The Age of Bronze

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.

## 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

Casts of the statue can be found in many museums, including:
| Institution | City | Country |
| Albright–Knox Art Gallery | 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 | Copenhagen | Denmark |
| Nationalmuseum | 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 | 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 | Antwerp | Belgium |
| Minneapolis Institute of Arts | Minneapolis, Minnesota | United States |
| Musée d'Orsay | Paris | France |
| Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon | Lyon | France |
| Musée Rodin | Paris | France |
| Museo Soumaya | Mexico City | Mexico |
| Museum of Fine Arts | Budapest | Hungary |
| Nasher Sculpture Center | 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 | 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 | Tokyo | Japan |
| Tokyo Fuji Art Museum | 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 | Brisbane | Australia |
| Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna | Rome | Italy |
| Manchester Art Gallery | Manchester | United Kingdom |
| Chrysler Museum of Art | 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