Mrs. Stanford White (Bessie Springs Smith)
Augustus Saint-Gaudens
1884, cast 1893
Medium
Bronze
Dimensions
Diam. 14 1/4 in. (36.2 cm)
Classification
Medallion
Culture
American
Department
The American Wing
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Anne Tonetti Gugler, 1981
Accession Number
1981.55.1
Tags
PortraitsWomen
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...