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SAINT-GAUDENS, Augustus

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

Docteur Henry Shiff, dit aussi Docteur Henry Schiff
Doctor Henry Shiff, also known as Doctor Henry Schiff

MEDOR 1434 1

1880

Bronze relief, yellow patina

H: 0, 088 m.; W: 0, 093 m.

Paris, Musée d'Orsay

Inscription

To the left: ALL'AMICONE / DOTTORE HENRY / SCHIFF - AETATIS / XXXXVII DEI / ROSPI: DI-RO- / MA:E-DEI / PVZZI ROMA / NI AMANTE / DI FILOSO / FIA E DI / BELLE ARTI / DILETTANTE / DEL TIPO GATTES / CO - INNAMORA / TO **** IN / PARIGI NEL / MESE DI MAG / GIODELL I / ANNO M / D C C C L X / XX **** / FECE AVG / VSTVS SA /INT - GAV / DENS

Medals

From 1865 to 1900

Historical

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

Comment

Henry Schiff (1833-1906) a physician, was born in New Orleans and raised in France. After serving as a doctor in the Confederate Army during the Civil War, he practiced medicine in New York and later traveled to Europe. He lived successively in Italy, Spain, and Paris, and never returned to the United States. A close friend of the sculptor, he was also a noted collector of Chinese and Japanese bronzes.

Related works

Other casts: at the Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site, Cornish, New Hampshire and in several private collections. There are two identical casts in the collection of the Musée d'Orsay (MEDOR 1434 1 et MEDOR 1434 2).

Bibliography

Catalogue des oeuvres de peinture, sculpture, dessin, gravure, architecture et objets d'art exposés au Champ de Mars le 1er mars 1898; n° 166;

Wilkinson, pp. 47-48, 102-04;

Hind;

Bouton, pp. 351-357;

Bond, pp. 45-48;

Hollingsworth;

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

Catalogue of a Memorial Exhibition of the Works of Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, 1908, p. 61, n° 117;

H. Saint-Gaudens, Reminiscences of Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Century Co., New York, 1913, vol. I, pp. 124, 215;

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. 105-06;

Kathryn Greenthal, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Master Sculptor, New York,
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Boston, G.R. Hall & Co., 1986, pp. 89-90, 123, 173;

Augustus Saint-Gaudens 1848-1907: Un maître de la sculpture américaine, Paris, Editions Somogy, 1999, pp. 157-59.