World's Columbian Exposition Award Medal
Medium
Medaille, Aluminium- und Holzschatulle
Dimensions
7,5 cm
Classification
Medaille
Department
Belvedere Collection
Museum
Belvedere
Credit
Belvedere, Vienna
Accession Number
10694
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...