Its strangeness attracted the attention of L'Etoile Belge, who thought it represented a man on the verge of committing suicide.
It was first exhibited under the title The Defeated One and was also titled The Awakening of Humanity at one point. The plaster version of this sculpture was displayed at the Cercle Artistique in Brussels and this version is recognized because of valuable photographs by Marconi and Druet. Its strangeness attracted the attention of L'Etoile Belge, who thought it represented a man on the verge of committing suicide. Its model was a twenty-two-year-old Belgian soldier, Auguste Neyt, and in order to discredit its creator, his contemporaries claimed the sculpture was cast from life. The better-recognized bronze version of it was commissioned by Edmund Turquet, the director of the Beaux-Arts, in 1900. FTP, name this Rodin sculpture of a nude man touching his head with one hand.
It was first exhibited under the title The Defeated One and was also titled The Awakening of Humanity at one point.
The Age of Bronze or L'Age d'Airain (accept The Awakening of Humanity or The Defeated One before they're mentioned)