AUGUSTUS SAINT-GAUDENS | JULES BASTIEN LEPAGE: A PORTRAIT RELIEF

Private collection (sold: Sotheby's, New York, March 17, 1994, lot 37)

James Graham & Sons, New York (acquired at the above sale)

Acquired by the present owner from the above

Catalogue of the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum, Greenwich, Connecticut, 1965, pp. 46-7, illustration of another example

The National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Augustus Saint-Gaudens: The Portrait Reliefs, New York, 1969, no. 18, illustration of another example

J.H. Dryfhout, The Works of Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Hanover, 1982, p. 107, no. 87, illustrations of another example

Kathryn Greenthal, P. Kozol, J. Ramirez, American Figurative Sculpture in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 1986, pp. 222-4, pl. 67, illustration of another example

According to Kathryn Greenthal, "several variants of the Bastien-LePage portrait exist, differing in details, inscriptions and method of production." She further observes that the present work is similar to the cast at The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, which: "includes in the upper left-hand corner a nude female sitting on a bench under a tree, with the VERITE inscribed beneath her, perhaps alluding to Bastien's adherence to a painting style of photo-graphic realism (Kathryn Greenthal, P. Kozol, J. Ramirez, American Figurative Sculpture in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 1986, pp. 222-24, pl. 67, illustration of another example)