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Exhibitions
Exposition Universelle, Paris, 1900, n° 56;
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° 82.
SAINT-GAUDENS, Augustus
Dublin, Ireland, 1848 - Cornish, New Hampshire, 1907
Came to the United States as a child.
Gertrude Vanderbilt
MEDOR 1438
1882
Bronze medal, brown patina
D: 0, 098 m.
Paris, Musée d'Orsay
Inscription
Around the border of the medal: GERTRUDE - VANDERBILT - AETAT - VII - Lower right: AUGUSTUS / SAINT / GAUDENS / FECIT
Medals
From 1865 to 1900
Historical
Purchased from the artist for the Musée du Luxembourg, 1899.
Comment
Gertrude Vanderbilt (1848-1907) was the daughter of Cornelius Vanderbilt, American railroad tycoon, and his wife Alice Claypole Gwynne Vanderbilt. She married Harry Payne Whitney in 1896. She became a sculptor and studied with Andrew O'Connor and James Fraser, both students of Saint-Gaudens. An active patron of the arts, she founded the Whitney Museum in New York. Two of her works appears in this database: Etude de tête du monument Titanic / Study for the Head of a Monument for the Titanic/
Related works
Other casts are in collections including: the Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site, Cornish, New Hampshire.
Bibliography
Wilkinson, pp. 113, 126;
Hind;
Hollingsworth;
H. Saint-Gaudens, ed., Reminiscences of Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Century Co., New York, 1913, vol. I, pp. 349;
André Dezarrois, "Le Musée des écoles étrangères, " Le Revue de l'Art ancien et moderne, 1926, vol. 49, p. 160-172, p. 168;
B. H. Friedman, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, New York, 1978, pp. 167, 172, 304;
John H. Dryfhout, The Work of Augustus Saint-Gaudens (catalogue raisonné) Hanover and London, University Press of New England, 1982, pp. 129;
Augustus Saint-Gaudens 1848-1907: Un maître de la sculpture américaine, Paris, Editions Somogy, 1999, pp. 174.
