William Maxwell Evarts
Augustus Saint-Gaudens
1872–73; carved 1874
Medium
Marble
Dimensions
22 7/8 x 12 3/4 x 9 1/4 in. (58.1 x 32.4 x 23.5 cm)
Classification
Bust
Culture
American
Department
The American Wing
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Erving and Joyce Wolf, in memory of Diane R. Wolf, 1987
Accession Number
1987.405
Tags
MenPortraits
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...