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.

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]}