Augustus Saint-Gaudens
Artist: Kenyon Cox (American, 1856–1919)
Original Dimensions: 33 1/2" x 47 1/8"
Location: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
About Artwork: (1887, replica 1908) "Cox and Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848–1907) met in Paris in the 1870s and exchanged portraits in 1887—an oil painting for a bronze relief. The original canvas was lost in Saint-Gaudens’s 1904 studio fire, so Cox created this replica for The Met’s 1908 memorial exhibition of the sculptor’s work. Saint-Gaudens is shown in his New York studio, modeling in clay a portrait of the artist William Merritt Chase. A bronze likeness of the sculptor’s son, Homer, hangs on the wall (05.15.2). Cox echoed his friend’s portrait reliefs by showing him in profile." - (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)

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