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SAINT-GAUDENS, Augustus

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

Charles Cotesworth Beaman

MEDOR 1417 1

1894.

Bronze relief, yellow-brown patina

H: 0, 117 m.; W: 0, 068 m.

Paris, Musée d'Orsay

Inscription

Above: M*D*C*C*C*LXXXXIVIn a cartouche below: CHARLES COTESWORTH BEAMAN / BY HIS FRIEND AUGUSTUS SAINT-GAUDENS

Medals

From 1865 to 1900

Historical

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

Related works

MEDOR 1416, 1417 1 et 1417 2 are casts of the same relief in different sizes. There are other casts in the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., and in numerous private collections.

Bibliography

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

L. Forrer, Biographical Dictionary of Medallists, v. VII, London 1909, p. 215 et vol. V, p. 300;

Andre Dezarrois, "Le Musee des ecoles etrangeres, " Le Revue de l'Art ancien et moderne, 1926, vol. 49, p. 160-172, p. 168;

John H. Dryfhout, The Work of Augustus Saint-Gaudens (catalogue raisonne) Hanover and London, University Press of New England, 1982, p. 211.

Augustus Saint-Gaudens 1848-1907: Un maitre de la sculpture americaine, Paris, Editions Somogy, 1999, p. 192.