Jules Bastien-Lepage
Medium
bronze
Dimensions
overall: 36.83 × 26.67 × 2.22 cm (14 1/2 × 10 1/2 × 7/8 in.) framed: 48.26 × 38.1 × 4.45 cm (19 × 15 × 1 3/4 in.)
Classification
Sculpture
Department
CSD
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Gift of Louis E. Shecter)
Accession Number
2014.136.262
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...