Jules Bastien-Lepage
Augustus Saint-Gaudens
1880, cast 1910
Medium
Bronze
Dimensions
14 3/4 x 10 1/2 in. (37.5 x 26.7 cm)
Classification
Sculpture
Culture
American
Department
The American Wing
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift by subscription through the Saint-Gaudens Memorial Committee, 1912
Accession Number
12.76.4
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About the Artist
Augustus Saint-Gaudens · 1848–1907
Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848–1907) was an Irish-born American sculptor widely regarded as the greatest American sculptor of the nineteenth century. Born in Dublin to a French father and Irish mother, he was brought to New York City as an infant. He trained as a cameo cutter, studied at the Cooper Union and the National Academy of Design, and then traveled to Paris, where he studied at the École de...