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Augustus Saint-Gaudens II

artist Anders Zorn (Mora, 1860 - 1920, Mora)

subject Augustus Saint-Gaudens (Dublin, 1848 - 1907, Cornish, New Hampshire)

subject Hettie Anderson (American, 1873 - 1938)

Date1897

Place MadeSweden, Europe

MediumEtching on laid paper

Dimensions20 x 31.8 cm (7 7/8 x 12 1/2 in.)

ClassificationsPrints

Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Accession number4.2.r.161

eMuseum ID728803

Original Number3.2.o.110

EmbARK ObjectID14095

TMS Source ID2923

Last Updated10/3/24

Status

Not on view

Web CommentaryIs this still a studio scene? By depicting American sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848–1907) with his young model, Hettie Anderson (1873–1938) on a bed, Zorn created something more like an intimate boudoir picture. Saint-Gaudens had an affair with Anderson and used her in multiple commissions. Zorn contrasts the older artist with the model’s youth and energy. Similar to Zorn’s own Self-Portrait with Model II, this portrait explores the charged relationship between male artist and female model.

BibliographyNotesMichelle Facos. Swedish Impressionism’s Boston Champion: Anders Zorn and Isabella Stewart Gardner. Exploring Treasures in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum VI. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 1993), pp. 18-19.
Sven Lidbeck, Anders Zorn Etchings: Catalogue Raisonné (Helsinki, 2007), p. 151, ZG114.
Oliver Tostmann et al. Anders Zorn: A European Artist Seduces America. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 2013), pp. 136-37, no. 19.
Elizabeth Reluga, "Commemorating Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Massachusetts Regiment," Inside the Collection (blog), Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 16 April 2020, https://www.gardnermuseum.org/blog/commemorating-robert-gould-shaw-54th-massachusetts-regiment

Nathaniel Silver, "Hettie Anderson: Model for Augustus Saint-Gaudens," Inside the Collection (blog), Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 16 February 2021, https://www.gardnermuseum.org/blog/hettie-anderson-model-augustus-saint-gaudens

MarksNotesSigned and dated in plate (lower right): Zorn 17 X 1897
Inscribed in plate (lower right): St. Gaudens
Signed in graphite (lower margin): Zorn
Numbered in graphite (lower right corner): 110
Numbered in graphite (verso, lower left corner): A.114
Watermark: Lion in ring with text

ProvenanceNotesProbably a gift from Anders Zorn to Isabella Stewart Gardner in 1897.