Homer Schiff Saint-Gaudens
Medium
plaster
Dimensions
overall: 50.8 × 25.4 × 3.18 cm (20 × 10 × 1 1/4 in.) framed: 61.6 × 36.2 × 1.27 cm (24 1/4 × 14 1/4 × 1/2 in.)
Classification
Sculpture
Department
CSD
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Gift of Miss Burdette)
Accession Number
2014.136.256
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...