Abraham Lincoln: The Man (Standing Lincoln)
1884–87; reduced 1910; cast 1911
Medium
Bronze
Dimensions
40 1/2 x 16 1/2 x 30 1/4 in. (102.9 x 41.9 x 76.8 cm)
Classification
Sculpture
Culture
American
Department
The American Wing
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Tyson Family Gift, in memory of Edouard and Ellen Muller; The Beatrice G. Warren and Leila W. Redstone, and Maria DeWitt Jesup Funds; Dorothy and Imre Cholnoky, David Schwartz Foundation Inc., Joanne and Warren Josephy, Annette de la Renta, Thomas H. and Diane DeMell Jacobsen Ph.D. Foundation, and Felicia Fund Inc. Gifts, 2012
Accession Number
2012.14a, b
Tags
Art Historical Context
Augustus Saint-Gaudens a leading American sculptor of the Gilded Age and master of Beaux-Arts realism, *Abraham Lincoln: The ManStanding Lincoln)* between 1884 and 1887. This bronze reduction, scaled down in 1910 cast in 1911, captures the 16th president in a poised, introspective stance that has become iconic. Standing at over 40 inches tall, resides in The Met's American Wing, embodying the era's reverence for Lincoln as a unifying national hero two decades after the Civil War. Saint-Gaudens drew from life-sized models for his monumental Chicago Lincoln monument, refining Lincoln's features...
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...