Charles Stewart Butler and Lawrence Smith Butler
Augustus Saint-Gaudens
1880-1881
Medium
plaster
Dimensions
overall: 62.2 x 90.2 cm (24 1/2 x 35 1/2 in.) framed: 84.8 x 113 x 4.4 cm (33 3/8 x 44 1/2 x 1 3/4 in.)
Classification
Sculpture
Department
CSD
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Avalon Fund and Margaret Bouton Memorial Fund
Accession Number
1990.31.1
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...