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SAINT-GAUDENS, Augustus

Dublin, Ireland, 1848 - Cornish, New Hampshire, 1907
Came to the United States as a child.

Jules Bastien-Lepage

MEDOR 1411 1

1880

Bronze relief

H: 0, 162 m.; W: 0, 116 m.

Paris, Musée d'Orsay

Inscription

Above: JULES * BASTIEN * LEPAGE * AETATIS * XXXI * PARIS * MDCCCLXXX * AUGUSTUS / SAINT * GAUDENS * FECIT

Medals

From 1865 to 1900

Historical

Purchased from the artist for the Musée du Luxembourg, 1899.

Comment

This portrait was modelled in exchange for a portrait that Bastien-Lepage painted of Saint-Gaudens. The portrait has since been destroyed.

Related works

There are numerous other examples of this medal in collections including: the Amherst College Art Gallery, Amherst, Massachusetts; the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts; the Broooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York; the Century Association, New York; the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; the Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan; the Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Illinois; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the National Academy of Design, New York; the R.W. Norton Art Gallery, Shreveport, Louisiana; the Princeton University Museum of Art, Princeton, New Jersey; the Saint Louis City Art Museum; St. Louis, Missouri, and numerous private collections.

Bibliography

Roger Marx, Les Médailleurs Modernes à l'Exposition Universelle de 1900, Paris, 1901, repr. pl. 28;

Ellen Terry, "My First Appearance in America, " McClure's Magazine, vol. XXXI, n° 2, June, 1908, p. 121-132, repr. p. 124;

L. Forrer, Biographical Dictionary of Medallists, v. II, London 1904, p. 215;

Lorado Taft, Modern Tendencies in Sculpture, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, p. 279;

André Dezarrois, "Le Musée des écoles étrangères, " Le Revue de l'Art ancien et moderne, 1926, vol. 49, p. 160-172, p. 168;

Trois siècles d'art aux Etats-Unis: Exposition organisée en collaboration avec le Museum of Art, New York, Musée du Jeu de Paume, Paris, 1938, p. 51;

Maurice Rheims, La Sculpture au XIXè siècle, Paris, Arts et Métiers Graphiques, 1972, p. 255;

Jeremy Cooper, Nineteenth Century Romantic Bronzes, 1830-1915, London, 1975, p. 113;

Sculpture From the David Daniels Collection, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1979, p. 94;

John H. Dryfhout, The Work of Augustus Saint-Gaudens (catalogue raisonné) Hanover and London, University Press of New England, 1982, p. 107.

Marble and Bronze: One Hundred Years of American Sculpture, 1840-1940, 1984, Adams Davidson Galleries, Washington, D.C., p. 14;

Kathryn Greenthal, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Master Sculptor, New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Boston, G.R. Hall & Co.; 1986, p. 90-93;

Kathryn Greenthal, Paula M. Kozol, Jan Seidler Ramirez, American Figurative Sculpture, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1986, p. 222-5.

Barbara A. Baxter, The Beaux-Arts Medal in America, the American Numismatic Society, New York, 1986 (26 septembre 1986 - 16 avril 1987), p. 28-30.

Augustus Saint-Gaudens 1848-1907: Un maître de la sculpture américaine, Paris, Editions Somogy, 1999, p. 162-3.