The Age of Bronze (detail)

This life-size nude male figure is also known as The Vanquished. 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. Rodin continued to produce casts of the statue for several decades after it was modelled in 1876. These casts can be found in several museums around the world.