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SAINT-GAUDENS, Augustus

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

Stanley Matthews et sa femme Mary
Stanley Matthews and His Wife Mary

MEDOR 1426

1903 - 1904

Bronze relief, brown patina

H: 0, 243 m.; W: 0, 365 m.

Paris, Musée d'Orsay

Inscription

Upper right: STANLEY - MATTHEWS - AND - HIS - WIFE - MARY
Lower left monogrammed: ASPET / A - S - T - G / MCMIV

Medals

From 1900 to 1940

Historical

Mode of acquisition unknown.

Comment

Stanley Matthews was a Supreme Court Justice. Born in Cincinnatti, Ohio, he became Supreme Court Justice in 1881 during the Presidential term of James Garfield. Mrs. Mary Theaker of Washington, D.C. became his second wife in 1887. His daughter Jane commissioned this portrait from Saint-Gaudens for $12, 000. The bronze was cast by Aubry Brothers, New York.

Frances Grimes, Saint-Gaudens' studio assistant, assisted him in the completion of this work.

Related works

Other casts of this medal are in collections including: those of Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio and the Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site, Cornish, New Hampshire. Reductions of the original are in the collections of the Cincinatti Art Museum, Cincinatti, Ohio, and the Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site, Cornish, New Hampshire. There are also casts in numerous private collections.

Bibliography

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, pp. 268-69;

Augustus Saint-Gaudens 1848-1907: Un maître de la sculpture américaine, Paris, Editions Somogy, 1999, pp. 193-94.