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SAINT-GAUDENS, Augustus

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

Kenyon Cox

MEDOR 1424

1889

Bronze medal, brown patina

D: 0, 10 m.

Paris, Musée d'Orsay

Inscription

Around the medal: KENYON - COX - PAINTER - AETAT - XXXIII - MANHATTAN - M.D.C-C-C-L-XXXIX
Below: ASTG monogram

Medals

From 1865 to 1900

Historical

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

Related works

Two other plaster casts of this work exist: at the Saint-Gaudens National Historical Sire, Cornish, New Hampshire, and at the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Insitution, Washington, DC.

Bibliography

Art Digest, vol. 15, novembre 1, 1940, p. 7;

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

H. Saint-Gaudens, Reminiscences of Augustus Saint-Gaudens, 1913, "Chronology";

The American Renaissance, 1876-1917, The Brooklyn Museum, New York, 13 octobre - 30 decembre 1979, p. 227;

John H. Dryfhout, The Work of Augustus Saint-Gaudens (catalogue raisonné) Hanover and London, University Press of New England, 1982, p. 181;

Wilkinson, p. 202-03?

Augustus Saint-Gaudens 1848-1907: Un maître de la sculpture américaine, Paris, Editions Somogy, 1999, p. 180-81.