LOT DETAILS

Materials:

bronze with greenish-brown patina

Measurements:

30.24 in. (76.80 cm.) (height)

Markings:

inscribed 'AVGVTVS·SAINT GAVDENS' and stamped twice '·COPYRIGHT·/·BY·AVGVSTVS·/SAINT·GAVDENS/*M*/·DCCCXC·/*IX*' (on the base)--inscribed '·THE·PVRITAN·' (along the base)

Literature:

W. Craven, Sculpture in America, Cranbury, New Jersey, 1968, pp. 384-85, another example referenced. B.G. Proske, Brookgreen Gardens Sculpture, Murrells Inlet, South Carolina, 1968, pp. 9-11, another example illustrated. T. Armstrong, et al., 200 Years of American Sculpture, New York, 1976, pp. 51, 81, pl. 18, another example illustrated. J.H. Dryfhout, The Work of Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Hanover, New Hampshire, 1982, pp. 162-66, other examples illustrated. M. Evert, Discovering Pittsburgh’s Sculpture, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1983, pp. 293-94, another example illustrated. K. Greenthal, Augustus Saint-Gaudens: Master Sculptor, exhibition catalogue, New York, 1985, p. 174. K. Greenthal, et al., American Figurative Sculpture in the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, 1986, pp. 238-42, no. 74, another example illustrated. M.A. Goley, B. Wilkinson, Augustus Saint-Gaudens: American Sculptor, From the Collection of the Saint-Gaudens Historic Site, exhibition catalogue, Washington, D.C., 1992, pp. IV, VIII, no. 24. T. Tolles, ed., American Sculpture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, vol. I, New York, 1999, pp. 285-88, no. 123, another example illustrated. H.J. Duffy, J.H. Dryfhout, Augustus Saint-Gaudens: American Sculptor of the Gilded Age, exhibition catalogue, Washington, D.C., 2003, p. 75, no. 39, another example illustrated.

Provenance:

(Probably) Elizabeth Broun Ernst, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (Probably) The Winchester Thurston School, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, gift from the above, circa 1950. (Probably) Sotheby's, New York, 21 May 2003, lot 183, sold by the above. (Probably) Acquired by the present owners from the above.