Inscribed, located, dated and signed 'JVLES BASTIEN-LEPAGE AETATIS XXXI (31) · PARIS · MDCCCLXXX (1880) · AVGVSTVS · / SAINT-GAVDENS · FECIT' along the upper edge, bronze with golden brown patina
Height: 14 1/4 in. (36.2cm)
Width: 10 1/8 in. (25.7cm)
Depth: 1/2 in. (1.3cm)
Conceived in 1880, cast in 1910 (with the authorization of the artist's son) by Magee Furnace Company, Chelsea, Massachusetts.
Unframed.

Provenance

Collection of Mrs. Albin Polacek, New York.
Collection of Mrs. Albert Strauss, New York.
To Mrs. Regina Strauss Collins, New York.
Christian Duvernois, Fine Art.
Acquired directly from the above in 1990.
Collection of Alan I. and Dianne Kay, Bethesda, Maryland.
The Estate of Alan I. and Dianne Kay, Bethesda, Maryland.

Literature

Albert TenEyck Gardner, American Sculpture: A Catalogue of the Collection of the Metropolitan Museum, Greenwich, 1965, pp. 46-47 (another example illustrated).
Augustus Saint-Gaudens: The Portrait Reliefs, an exhibition catalogue, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., 1969, no. 18 (another example illustrated).
John H. Dryfhout, The Work of Augustus Saint-Gaudens, University Press of New England, Hanover, 1982, pp. 107-8, no. 87 (another example illustrated).
Kathryn Greenthal, Saint-Gaudens: Master Sculpture, Boston, 1985, p. 93 (another example illustrated).
K. Greenthal, et al., American Figurative Sculpture in the Museum of Fine Arts, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1986, p. 67 (another example illustrated).