The Golden Age, ca. 1878, Black chalk heightened with white on faded blue paper, 18 7/16 x 12 in. (46. 8 x 30. 4 cm), Drawings, Auguste Rodin (French, Paris 1840?1917 Meudon), Redolent of the eighteenth century in both subject and technique, the drawing reflects Rodin's meticulous training in the traditions of French eighteenth-century draftsmanship under Horace Lecoq de Boisbaudran at the ?cole Imperiale Speciale de Dessin et de Mathematiques, now the ?cole Superieure des Arts Decoratifs