"Double Eagle" Twenty Dollar Gold Piece [reverse]
Augustus Saint-Gaudens
model 1905-1907, struck 1907
!["Double Eagle" Twenty Dollar Gold Piece [reverse] by Augustus Saint-Gaudens](https://images.artheonmuseum.org/nga/thumb/double-eagle-twenty-dollar-gold-piece-reverse-nga-149529.webp)
Medium
gold alloy
Dimensions
overall (diameter): 3.4 cm (1 5/16 in.)
Classification
Sculpture
Department
CSD
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of John Wilmerding
Accession Number
2008.100.1.b
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...