Frances Folsom Cleveland
Augustus Saint-Gaudens
1887–92, cast 1902
Medium
Bronze
Dimensions
Diameter: 5 1/2 in. (14 cm)
Classification
Medal
Department
The American Wing
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Friends of the American Wing Fund, 2008
Accession Number
2008.156
Tags
PortraitsProfilesWomen
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...