LOT DETAILS

Materials:

bronze with brown patina

Size Notes:

high from top of head to toe; 98.4 cm high including bow and tripod base

Markings:

inscribed '·DIANA·/·OF THE·/TOWER' (along the base)--inscribed 'AVGVSTVS-/SAINT GAVDENS/MDCCXCIX' and stamped '·COPYRIGHT·/BY·AVGVSTVS·/SAINT GAVDENS/M/·DCCXC/IX' and 'AVENUE DE CHATILLON/PARIS/44/E.GRUET/JEUNE/FONDEUR' (on the base)

Literature:

B. Hollingsworth, American Sculptors Series: Augustus Saint-Gaudens, New York, 1948, p. 39, another example illustrated. J.H. Dryfhout, 'Diana,' Metamorphoses in Nineteenth Century Sculpture, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1975, pp. 183-86, 201-13, no. 19, another example illustrated. J.H. Dryfhout, The Works of Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Hanover, New Hampshire, 1982, pp. 155, 194, 205-10, nos. 121, 144, 154, figs. 154-59, other examples illustrated. K. Greenthal, Augustus Saint-Gaudens: Master Sculptor, Boston, Massachusetts, 1985, pp. 23, 138-41, pl. VIII, fig. 143, another example illustrated. S.E. Menconi, Uncommon Spirit: Sculpture in America 1800-1940, New York, 1989, pp. 28-29, another example illustrated. T. Tolles, ed., American Sculpture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, vol. 1, New York, 1999, pp. 305-09, no. 131, another example illustrated. H.J. Duffy, J.H. Dryfhout, Augustus Saint-Gaudens: American Sculptor of the Gilded Age, exhibition catalogue, Washington, D.C., 2003, pp. 80-83, no. 43, another example as frontispiece illustration. T. Tolles, Augustus Saint-Gaudens in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2009, pp. 31-35, 72, fig. 42, another example illustrated.

Provenance:

The artist. Stanford White, St. James, New York, gift from the above, by 1906. Lawrence Grant White, St. James New York, son of the above, by descent. F.L.P. White, St. James, New York, son of the above, by descent. Dr. Stephen Goodyear, New York, acquired from the above, 1974. Private collection, by descent. Sotheby's, New York, 3 December 1998, lot 164, sold by the above. Acquired by the present owner from the above.