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Age of Bronze, 1876, bronze
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. A. Q. Peterson
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New Orleans Museum of Art, Louisiana
One Collins C. Diboll Circle /City Park
P.O. Box 19123
New Orleans, Louisiana 70179-0123 USA
Tel. 001 - 504 - 488 26 31
Fax 001 - 504 - 484 66 62
Paul Tarver - Registrar, Tel.
001 - 504 - 483 26 73
Diana Bramham - Public
Information Officer,
Tel. 001 - 504 - 483 26 57
The Website informs us that the New Orleans copy of The
Age of Bronze (1876) is one of twenty-seven known full-sized bronze
casts, cast during the artist's lifetime. This cast apparently was one
of the sculptures featured at the North
Carolina Rodin Festival.
The realism of the figure - also known as the Vanquished and
orginally bearing a spear - led to the accusation that Rodin had modeled
his work from casts taken directly from the human model, a technique
known as surmoulage or moulage sūr nature. Rodin went to
great lengths to prove this was false and had photographs taken from his
model, the Belgian soldier Auguste Neyt, to be compared with his sculpture - materials no one bothered to
review.
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