About This Artwork

Augustus Saint-Gaudens
American, 1848-1907
Foundry: Magee Furnace Co., Chelsea, Massachusetts

Jules Bastien-Lepage, modeled in 1880, cast in copper and bronze 1881

Copper with bronze patina
37.2 x 27 cm (14 5/8 x 10 5/8 in.)
Inscribed across top: "[I] VLES BASTIEN LEPAGE AETATIS XXXI PARIS MDCCCLXXX AVGVSTVS / SAINT-GAVDENS FECIT"
Gift of Sara Hallowell, 1908.83

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. 130.