About This Artwork

Augustus Saint-Gaudens
American, 1848-1907

Amor Caritas, modeled 1897; cast after 1899

Bronze
131.4 x 80.7 cm (51 3/4 x 31 3/4 in.)
Inscribed, lower left: "AVGVSTVS./SAINT-GAVDENS/MDCCCXCVII"

Plaque at top inscribed: "Amor Caritas"
Roger McCormick Fund, 1982.211

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Publication History

Judith A. Barter et al, American Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times to World War I (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1998), pp. 267-270, no. 132.