id: 98627 accession number: 1918.328 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1918.328 updated: 2025-02-08 22:38:37.365000 The Age of Bronze, 1875–76. Auguste Rodin (French, 1840–1917). Bronze; with base: 182.2 x 66.4 x 47 cm (71 3/4 x 26 1/8 x 18 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph King 1918.328 title: The Age of Bronze title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1875–76 creation date earliest: 1875 creation date latest: 1876 current location: 218 European Sculpture creditline: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph King copyright: --- culture: France, 19th century technique: bronze department: Modern European Painting and Sculpture collection: Mod Euro - Sculpture 1800-1960 type: Sculpture find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Auguste Rodin (French, 1840–1917) - artist --- measurements: with base: 182.2 x 66.4 x 47 cm (71 3/4 x 26 1/8 x 18 1/2 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: inscribed top of base to right: Rodin; inscribed back of base: A. RUDIER Fondeur Paris. translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: The Silver Jubilee Exhibition opening date: 1941-06-23T04:00:00 The Silver Jubilee Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-September 28, 1941). title: Art, A Means to World Understanding opening date: 1949-03-16T05:00:00 Art, A Means to World Understanding. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 16-April 10, 1949). title: Art: The International Language opening date: 1956-10-02T04:00:00 Art: The International Language. The Cleveland Museum of Art (October 2-November 4, 1956). title: Creativity in Art and Science, 1860-1960 opening date: 1987-09-16T04:00:00 Creativity in Art and Science, 1860-1960. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 16-November 8, 1987). title: Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum opening date: 1991-06-07T04:00:00 Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 7-September 8, 1991). title: Rodin: A Magnificent Obsession - Selections from the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Foundation opening date: 2003-01-25T00:00:00 Rodin: A Magnificent Obsession - Selections from the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Foundation. Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH (organizer) (January 25-May 18, 2003). title: Monet to Dalí: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2006-05-27T00:00:00 Monet to Dalí: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Beijing World Art Museum, China (May 26-August 27, 2006); Mori Art Center (September 16-November 26, 2006); Seoul Art Center, South Korea (December 22, 2006-March 28, 2007); Seoul Olympic Museum of Art, South Korea (April 7-May 20, 2007); Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada (June 9-September 16, 2007); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 21, 2007-January 13, 2008); Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN (February 15-June 1, 2008); Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT (June 22-September 21, 2008); The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (October 12, 2008-January 18, 2009). title: Rodin-100 Years opening date: 2017-09-01T04:00:00 Rodin-100 Years. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 1, 2017-May 13, 2018). title: Rodin—100 Years opening date: 2017-09-01T04:00:00 Rodin—100 Years. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 1, 2017-May 13, 2018). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Mr. and Mrs. Ralph King, Cleveland, Ohio, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: 1918 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1918- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Smiley, Charles Newton. "Rodin in the Metropolitan Museum. " Art and Archaeology 3, no. 3 (March 1916): 164-171. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 170-171 url: "Modern Sculpture at the Museum." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 4, no. 6 (1917): 108-09. page number: Mentioned: pp. 108-109 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25136110 "Rodin Memorial Exhibition." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 4, no. 9 (1917): 162-63. page number: Mentioned: p. 162 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25136150 Seaton-Schmidt, Anna. "August Rodin: Man and Sculptor: An Appreciation." The American Magazine of Art 9, no. 4 (February 1918): 129-40. page number: Reproduced: p. 135 url: "The Man of the Age of Bronze." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 5, no. 6/7 (1918): 63. page number: Reproduced: Front Matter; Mentioned: pp. 63, 70 url: www.jstor.org/stable/25136204 "Front Matter." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 6, no. 6 (1919). page number: Reproduced: Front Matter url: www.jstor.org/stable/25136296 Milliken, William. "Sculpture." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 34, no. 2 (February 1947): 25-26. page number: Mentioned: p. 25 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25141340 The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 333 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n65 Milliken William Mathewson. The Cleveland Museum of Art. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1958. page number: Reproduced: p. 9 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 175 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n199 Tacha, Athena. Rodin Sculpture in the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1967. page number: Mentioned: p. 94-95, cat. no. VII; Reproduced: p. [38], Plate 56 url: https://archive.org/details/RodinSculpture/page/n108 Tacha, Athena. Rodin Sculpture in the Cleveland Museum of Art. [Cleveland]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1967. page number: Reproduced: pl. 56, cat. no. VII url: Cleveland Museum of Art. Selected Works: Cleveland Museum of Art. [Cleveland]: The Museum, 1967. page number: Reproduced: p. 214 url: Jianu, Ionel, and Cécile Goldscheider. Rodin. Paris: Arted, 1967. page number: Mentioned: p. 85 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 175 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n199 Hamilton, George Heard. 19th and 20th Century Art: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1970. page number: Reproduced: p. 140, fig. 126 url: Hamilton, George Heard. 19th and 20th Century Art: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1970. page number: Reproduced: p. 140, pl. 126 url: Tacha, Athena. A Supplement to Rodin Sculpture in the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1974. page number: Mentioned: p. 126S-128S, cat. no. VII url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 217 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n237 Henning, Edward B. Creativity in Art and Science, 1860-1960. [Cleveland, Ohio]: Published by the Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1987. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 102-103, no. 10 url: Goldscheider, Cécile. Auguste Rodin: catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre sculpté. Paris, FR: Wildenstein Institute, 1989. page number: Reproduced: p. 161, fig. 95b url: Jiminez, Jill Berk, and Joanna Banham. Dictionary of Artists' Models. London: Fitzroy Dearborn, MI, 2001. page number: Reproduced: p. 401 url: Treasures of the Cleveland Museum of Art. London, UK. Scala Books, 2012. page number: Reproduced: p. 268-269 url: Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 290 url: Cleveland Museum of Art. Museum Masters: 2016-17 Companion Guide. [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2016. page number: Reproduced: P. 21 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1918.328/1918.328_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1918.328/1918.328_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1918.328/1918.328_full.tif