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Exhibitions
Salon de la Société National des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1898, n° 165;
Exposition Universelle, Paris, 1900, n° 56;
Les petites filles modernes, 1989, ?;
Augustus Saint-Gaudens 1848-1907: Un maître de la sculpture américaine, Toulouse, Musée des Augustins, 12 février - 30 mai 1999, Blérancourt, Musée National de la coopération franco-américaine, 26 juin - 18 octobre 1999, n° 78.
SAINT-GAUDENS, Augustus
Dublin, Ireland, 1848 - Cornish, New Hampshire, 1907
Came to the United States as a child.
Schiff Enfants, Leo Mortimer et Fanny Frieda Schiff
The Schiff Children, Leo Mortimer and Fanny Frieda Schiff
MEDOR 1433
1884 - 1885
Bronze relief, yellow patina
H: 0, 223 m.; W: 0, 168 m.
Paris, Musée d'Orsay
Inscription
Upper left: LEO - MORTIMER - SCHIFF
Upper right: FANNY - FRIEDA - SCHIFF
Below: AUGUSTUS - SAINT - GAUDENS - FECIT /
MDCCCLXXXIV
Medals
From 1865 to 1900
Historical
Purchased from the artist for the Musée du Luxembourg, 1899.
Comment
Leo Mortimer Schiff and Fanny Frieda Schiff were the children of Jacob Schiff, a New York banker and philanthropist of German origin who had made his fortune in railroads. Schiff was a noted patron of the arts.
Related works
Other casts exist: at the Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site, Cornish, New Hampshire, at the Metropolian Museum of Art, New York, and in a private collection in Pennsylvania.
Bibliography
Catalogue des oeuvres de peinture, sculpture, dessin, gravure, architecture et objets d'art exposés au Champ de Mars le 1er mars 1898; n° 165;
Cortissoz, ill.;
Hind;
Hollingsworth;
C. Roger Marx, "The Medallists' Art as Seen at the Paris Exhibition, " The Studio, vol. 22, May 1901, p. 230;
Roger Marx, Les Médailleurs Modernes à l'Exposition Universelle de 1900, Paris, 1901, repr. pl. 28;
Lorado Taft, Modern Tendencies in Sculpture, 1917, p. 279;
Catalogue of a Memorial Exhibition of the Works of Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, 1908, p. 61, n° 118;
André Dezarrois, "Le Musée des écoles étrangères, " Le Revue de l'Art ancien et moderne, 1926, vol. 49, p. 160-172, p. 168;
Albert T. E. Gardner, American Sculpture, New York, 1965, p. 51;
John H. Dryfhout, The Work of Augustus Saint-Gaudens (catalogue raisonné) Hanover and London, University Press of New England, 1982, pp. 152-53;
Kathryn Greenthal, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Master Sculptor, New York,
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Boston, G.R. Hall & Co., 1986, p. 45, pp. 111-13, p. 173;
Augustus Saint-Gaudens 1848-1907: Un maître de la sculpture américaine, Paris, Editions Somogy, 1999, pp. 172-73.
