Rodin returns in 1877 to Paris, where…

November 1877 CE

Rodin returns in 1877 to Paris, where he exhibits the 1876 bronze Le Vaincu (”The Vanquished”), as L'age d'Airain (”The Age of Bronze”) at the Salon.

The highly naturalistic sculpture again inspires the scandalized outrage of the critics.

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Auguste Rodin: The bronze age (1875/76) (Shown in the gallery of impressionists in the Alte Nationalgalerie (Old National gallery), Berlin. Behind to the right a panting by Édouard Manet, on the left a painting by Camille Pissarro. Photo taken 18 April 2006 by Daniel Ullrich, Threedots

Auguste Rodin: The bronze age (1875/76) (Shown in the gallery of impressionists in the Alte Nationalgalerie (Old National gallery), Berlin. Behind to the right a panting by Édouard Manet, on the left a painting by Camille Pissarro. Photo taken 18 April 2006 by Daniel Ullrich, Threedots

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