Louise Adele Gould
Medium
Marble
Dimensions
16 1/2 x 17 x 4 1/2 in., 88lb. (41.9 x 43.2 x 11.4 cm)
Classification
Bust
Culture
American
Department
The American Wing
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Charles W. Gould, 1931
Accession Number
32.62.1
Tags
Art Historical Context
Augustus Saint-Gaudens one of America's foremost sculptors of the Gilded Age, crafted this elegant marble bust of *Louise Adele Gould* in 1904. Renowned for his Beaux-Arts mastery seen in grand public monuments like the Robert Gould Shaw Memorial, Saint-Gaudens here turned his skill to intimate portraiture. The subject, Louise Adele Gould, gazes thoughtfully forward, her features captured with lifelike precision that reflects the sculptor's late-career finesse. Carved from marble—a medium evoking classical antiquity and Renaissance ideals— the bust measures 16½ x 17 x 4½ inches and weighs 88 ...
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...