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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1923.36
People
Augustus Saint-Gaudens, American (Dublin, Ireland 1848 - 1907 Cornish, NH)
Title
Mariana Griswold van Rensselaer (1851-1934)
Classification
Sculpture
Work Type
sculpture
Date
1888
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/231452

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Coated plaster
Technique
Relief
Dimensions
52.7 x 20 x 4.5 cm (20 3/4 x 7 7/8 x 1 3/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: At top, above head: "Animus non Opus" Rt. center: MDCCCLXXXVIII. At bottom: To Mariana Griswold/van Rensselaer/Augustus/Saint-Gaudens [design of 3 flowers in a row]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Augustus Saint-Gaudens, 1888.
Gift to Mariana Griswold van Rensselaer, 1888.
Gift to the Fogg Art Museum, 1923.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mrs. Schuyler van Rensselaer
Accession Year
1923
Object Number
1923.36
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Augustus Saint-Gaudens: The Portrait Reliefs, exh. cat., National Portrait Gallery (Washington, D.C, 1969), no. 35
  • H. Wade White, "Nineteenth Century American Sculpture at Harvard, a Glance at the Collection", Harvard Library Bulletin (Cambridge, MA, October 1970), vol. XVIII, no. 4, pp. 365, pl. XIII
  • John M. Hunisak, Castings, Casts and Replicas: Nineteenth-Century Sculpture from Europe and America in New England Collections, exh. cat., Middlebury College Museum of Art (Middlebury, VT, 1994), pp. 139-140, reproduced p. 139, fig. 50
  • Mary Warner Blanchard, Oscar Wilde's America: Counterculture in the Gilded Age, Yale University Press (New Haven, CT and London, England, 1998), repr. p. 183, fig. 137

Exhibition History

  • Carvings, Casts, & Replicas: nineteenth-century sculpture from Europe & America in New England collections, Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, 09/22/1994 - 12/11/1994

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