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SAINT-GAUDENS, Augustus

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

Wayne MacVeagh

MEDOR 1425

1902 - 03

Bronze medal, brown patina

D: 0, 082 m.

Paris, Musée d'Orsay

Inscription

Around the border of the medal: WAYNE - MAC - VEAGH - WASHINGTON - D - C - MII
Lower right: the monogram A - ST - G

Medals

From 1900 to 1940

Historical

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

Comment

Wayne Mac Veagh (1833-1917) was the Attorney General of the United States during the Presidential term of James Garfield. He was serving as United States ambassador to Italy at the time this portrait was commissioned.

Henry Hering and Frances Grimes, Saint-Gaudens' studio assistants, assisted him in the completion of this work.

Related works

Other casts of this medal are in the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., et at the Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site, Cornish, New Hampshire.

Bibliography

Catalogue of a Memorial Exhibition of the Works of Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, 1908, p. 60, n° 114;

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, p. 248-49;

Kathryn Greenthal, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Master Sculptor, New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Boston, G.R. Hall & Co.; 1986, pp. 113.