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Modeling a Relief
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WMET0233
This Met x Wendover Art Group design is a reproduction of an original work of art in The Metropolitan Museum of Art collection.
Augustus Saint-Gaudens
Kenyon Cox (American, 1856–1919)
Oil on canvas; 33 1/2 x 47 1/8 in.; 1887, replica 1908
Gift of friends of the artist, through August F. Jaccaci, 1908 08.130
Cox and Augustus Saint-Gaudens met in Paris in the 1870s and exchanged portraits in 1887: an oil painting for a bronze relief. The original canvas was lost in Saint-Gaudens’s 1904 studio fire, so Cox created this replica in time for The Met’s 1908 memorial exhibition of the sculptor’s work. Saint-Gaudens is shown in his New York studio, modeling in clay a portrait relief of the artist William Merritt Chase. A bronze likeness of the sculptor’s son, Homer, hangs on the wall. Cox cleverly echoed his friend’s portrait reliefs by showing him in profile.
This Met x Wendover Art Group design is a reproduction of an original work of art in The Metropolitan Museum of Art collection.
Augustus Saint-Gaudens
Kenyon Cox (American, 1856–1919)
Oil on canvas; 33 1/2 x 47 1/8 in.; 1887, replica 1908
Gift of friends of the artist, through August F. Jaccaci, 1908 08.130
Cox and Augustus Saint-Gaudens met in Paris in the 1870s and exchanged portraits in 1887: an oil painting for a bronze relief. The original canvas was lost in Saint-Gaudens’s 1904 studio fire, so Cox created this replica in time for The Met’s 1908 memorial exhibition of the sculptor’s work. Saint-Gaudens is shown in his New York studio, modeling in clay a portrait relief of the artist William Merritt Chase. A bronze likeness of the sculptor’s son, Homer, hangs on the wall. Cox cleverly echoed his friend’s portrait reliefs by showing him in profile.
