Jules Bastien-Lepage
Augustus Saint-Gaudens
Modeled 1880, cast in copper and bronze 1881
Medium
Copper with bronze patina
Dimensions
37.2 × 27 cm (14 5/8 × 10 5/8 in.)
Classification
sculpture
Department
Arts of the Americas
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
63171
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...