About This Artwork

Augustus Saint-Gaudens
American, 1848-1907

Violet Sargent, modeled 1890; cast c. 1908

Bronze
127.7 x 77.5 cm (50 1/4 x 30 1/2 in.)
Inscribed in wreath upper right: "Violet Sargent"
Signed on bench:"A ST G / MDCCCLXXXX / FECIT"
Gift of Brooks McCormick, 1976.685

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. 131.