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SAINT-GAUDENS, Augustus

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

Roger Wolcott

MEDOR 1439

1903

Bronze relief, brown patina

H: 0, 264 m.; W: 0, 175 m.

Paris, Musée d'Orsay

Inscription

Above: NVULLIVS ADDICTVS JVRARE IN VERBA MAGISTRI
In a cartouche below: MDCCCXLVII - ROGER - WOLCOTT - MD - CCCCI
Lower right: AUGUSTUS - SAINT - GAUDENS

Medals

From 1900 to 1940

Historical

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

Comment

Roger Wolcott (1847-1901), a Boston lawyer, enjoyed a brilliant political career after graduating from Harvard. He served as governor of Massachusetts from 1896 to 1900. This portrait was made after his death. It was commissioned by Edith Prescott and cast by Roman Bronze of New York.

Frances Grimes and Henry Hering, Saint-Gaudens' studio assistants, helped him complete this work.

Related works

Other casts are in collections including: the Boston Atheneum, Boston, Massachusetts; the Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site, Cornish, New Hampshire; and the Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas.

Bibliography

Hind;

Hollingsworth;

William Lawrence, Roger Wolcott, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1902, p. 238ff;

H. Saint-Gaudens, ed., Reminiscences of Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Century Co., New York, 1913, vol. II, "Chronology;"

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. 252;

Augustus Saint-Gaudens 1848-1907: Un maître de la sculpture américaine, Paris, Editions Somogy, 1999, pp. 194.