LOT DETAILS

Materials:

bronze

Size Notes:

base: 6.4 cm

Description:

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Markings:

inscribed Diana of the Tower/Augvstus Saint Gaudens 1895/copyright A. St. Gavdens.189[?] on the marble base

Literature:

Jeanne L. Wasserman, ed., Metamorphoses in Nineteenth-Century Sculpture, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1975, pp. 201-17,illustration of another example p. 208 John H. Dryfhout, The Work of Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Hanover, New Hampshire and London, 1982, illustration of another example no. 154-6 Thayer Tolles, ed., American Sculpture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1999, vol. I,illustration of another example p. 308 Thayer Tolles, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, 1848-1907: A Master of American Sculpture, 1999, illustration of another example p. 124 Thayer Tolles, Augustus Saint-Gaudens in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New Haven, Connecticut and London, 2009, illustration of another example fig. 42, p. 34

Provenance:

Charles Deering (gift from the artist) Roger Deering (his son) Harry and Clyda Bailey, circa 1936 (gift from the above) By descent to the present owner (their grandson)