Augustus Saint-Gaudens I
artist
Anders Zorn
(Mora, 1860 - 1920, Mora)
subject
Augustus Saint-Gaudens
(Dublin, 1848 - 1907, Cornish, New Hampshire)
Date1897
Place MadeSweden, Europe
MediumEtching on laid paper
Dimensions31 x 23.8 cm (12 3/16 x 9 3/8 in.)
ClassificationsPrints
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession number4.3.o.170
Status
Not on viewWeb CommentaryPainter and printmaker Anders Zorn and sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens met at the Chicago World's Fair in 1893 and became fast friends and colleagues. They shared similar ebullient lifestyles and patrons including Isabella Stewart Gardner. Zorn frequently visited Saint-Gaudens’s studios in both New York and Paris, and in this etching, he captured his friend at rest in his artist’s smock. Apparently unsatisfied with his rendering, Zorn inscribed the print with “a bad portrait of St. Gaudens to Mrs. Gardner” when he gave it to her in 1897.
Id728460
Last Updated10/3/24
Original Number4.2.o.151
EmbARK ObjectID14105
Source ID2932
