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SAINT-GAUDENS, Augustus

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

Horace Gray

MEDOR 1419

1901 - 03

Bronze relief, brown patina

H: 0, 187 m.; W: 0, 209 m.

Paris, Musée d'Orsay

Inscription

Above: HORACE - GRAY - IN - HIS - SEVENTY - FOVRTH - YEAR - WASHINGTON - D.C. - APRIL - M-D-C-C-C-C-I / MAJOR - HAEREDITAS - VENIT - A - JVRE - ET - LEGIBVS
Upper right: ASTG monogram

Medals

From 1900 to 1940

Historical

Mode of acquisition unknown.

Related works

Other casts of this medal are at the Saint-Gaudens National Historical Site, Cornish, New Hampshire, at the United States Supreme Court Building, Washington, D.C., and in private collections.

Bibliography

Catalogue of a Memorial Exhibition of the Works of Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, 1908, p. 60;

H. Saint-Gaudens, Reminiscences of Augustus Saint-Gaudens, vol. II, 1913, p. 27;

André Dezarrois, "Le Musée des écoles étrangères, " 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 raisonné) Hanover and London, University Press of New England, 1982, n° 177, p. 244;

Augustus Saint-Gaudens 1848-1907: Un maître de la sculpture américaine, Paris, Editions Somogy, 1999, p. 193.