Lot 14
  • 14

Augustus Saint-Gaudens 1848-1907

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
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Description

  • Augustus Saint-Gaudens
  • Homer Saint-Gaudens at the Age of Seventeen Months
  • signed AUGUSTUS SAINT-GAUDENS, dated NEW YORK  FEBRUARY  MDCCCLXXXII and inscribed TO MY FRIEND DR. HENRY SCHIFF  THIS PORTRAIT OF MY SON HOMER SCHIFF SAINT-GAUDENS AT THE AGE OF SEVENTEEN MONTHS
  • bronze relief
  • 19 3/4 by 10 in.
  • 51 by 25.5 cm.

Provenance

Mrs. Augusta F. Homer Saint-Gaudens (the artist's wife)
Anson Conger Goodyear, Cornish, New Hampshire (acquired as a gift from the above)
By direct descent in the family to the present owner

Literature

H.J. Duffy and J.H. Dryfhout, Trust for Museum Exhibitions, Augustus Saint-Gaudens: American Sculptor of the Gilded Age, Washington, DC, 2003, p. 113, no. 73 (another example)
J.H. Dryfhout, The Work of Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Hanover, New Hampshire, 1982, pp. 126-127 (another example)
J.H. Dryfhout and B. Fox, Augustus Saint-Gaudens: The Portrait Relief, The National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C., no. 25 (another example)

Condition

in good condition
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Catalogue Note

Saint-Gaudens created this bronze relief of his only child, Homer Schiff Saint-Gaudens (1880-1958) for his close friend Dr. Henry Schiff, after whom he named the boy.