The Golden Age

1871–78

Dating: Date range
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Black chalk heightened with white on faded blue paper
Dimensions: 18 7/16 x 12 in. (46.8 x 30.4 cm)
Collection no.: 63.92.3
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Auguste Rodin. The Golden Age. Auguste Rodin; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Rogers Fund, 1963. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

About this artwork

The Golden Age — Auguste Rodin. 1871–78.

Medium: Black chalk heightened with white on faded blue paper. Dimensions: 18 7/16 x 12 in. (46.8 x 30.4 cm).

Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Credit line: Rogers Fund, 1963.

This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.

Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.

Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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