Homer Schiff Saint-Gaudens
1882; carved 1906–7
Medium
Marble
Dimensions
20 1/4 x 10 3/8 in., 66lb. (51.4 x 26.4 cm) Framed: 32 1/8 x 22 1/4 x 3 1/4 in. (81.6 x 56.5 x 8.3 cm)
Classification
Sculpture
Culture
American
Department
The American Wing
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Jacob H. Schiff, 1905
Accession Number
05.15.2
Tags
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...