I trust you have heard of my work The Age of Bronze, or L'age d'airain for my French readers. I first exhibited the work at the 1877 Salon in Paris. After all, who has not heard the claim that my sculpture was made by casting a living model? As if I would do such a thing. I am a craftsman and I certainly do not cheat.
The model for The Age of Bronze was a Belgian soldier. I got insipration for the sculpture after seeing Michaelangelo's Dying Slave at the Louvre in Paris.
Well, any publicity is good publicity, and at least the claims made people so curious about my work that lots of them came to view my sculpture.
Today while searching my own name online (don't ask) I was delighted to see that copies of this sculpture are in museums all over the world, including:
- Musee d'Orsay (France)
- MoMA (USA)
- National Gallery of Canada (Canada, obviously)
- Alte Nationalgalerie (Berlin)
And more! RECOGNITION! This makes me so happy.
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