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Head of Victory

Artist:: Augustus Saint-Gaudens (American, Dublin 1848–1907 Cornish, New Hampshire)

Date:: 1897–1903; cast 1907

Medium:: Bronze

Dimensions:: 8 x 7 x 6 1/2 in. (20.3 x 17.8 x 16.5 cm)

Classification:: Sculpture

Credit Line:: Rogers Fund, 1907

Accession Number:: 07.90

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 770

Head of Victory derives from one of several studies Saint-Gaudens made for the striding, windblown allegorical figure on his monument (1892–1903) to the Civil War general William Tecumseh Sherman at the southeast corner of Manhattan’s Central Park. While this version of the head differs from the one he ultimately used for the monumental figure, it shares that figure’s dual symbolism, emphasized by the Greek words inscribed on the base: NIKE–EIPHNH (Victory–Peace).

Signature: [right side]: A • SAINT • GAVDENS • M • C • M • / COPYRIGHT MCMVII; [back] BY AUGUSTUS; [left side] SAINT GAUDENS

Inscription: [front, within tablet]: NIKH - EIPHNH

Commissioned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1907

Essays
Augustus Saint–Gaudens (1848–1907)
From Model to Monument: American Public Sculpture, 1865–1915

Timelines
The United States and Canada, 1800–1900 A.D.
The United States and Canada, 1900 A.D.–present

American Sculpture: A Catalogue of the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
American Sculpture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Vol. 1, A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born before 1865
Augustus Saint-Gaudens in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
[adapted from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 66, no 4 (Spring, 2009)]

Department

American Paintings and Sculpture (5,336)

Artist / Maker / Culture

Augustus Saint-Gaudens (59)

Object Type / Material

Bronze (12,217)

Copper alloy (18,999)

Figures (5,122)

Sculpture (25,745)

Geographic Location

North and Central America (92,262)

United States (87,943)

Charles F. McKim, Stanford White, and Augustus Saint-Gaudens

Artist: Augustus Saint-Gaudens (American, Dublin 1848–1907 Cornish, New Hampshire) Date: 1878 Medium: Bronze Accession: 1992.306 On view in:Gallery 764

Amor Caritas

Artist: Augustus Saint-Gaudens (American, Dublin 1848–1907 Cornish, New Hampshire) Date: 1880–98, cast 1918 Medium: Bronze, gilt Accession: 19.124 On view in:Gallery 700

The Children of Jacob H. Schiff

Artist: Augustus Saint-Gaudens (American, Dublin 1848–1907 Cornish, New Hampshire) Date: 1884–85, carved 1906–7 Medium: Marble Accession: 05.15.3 On view in:Gallery 701

The Children of Prescott Hall Butler

Artist: Augustus Saint-Gaudens (American, Dublin 1848–1907 Cornish, New Hampshire) Date: 1880–81; carved 1906–7 Medium: Marble Accession: 05.15.1 On view in:Gallery 763

Charles F. McKim

Artist: Augustus Saint-Gaudens (American, Dublin 1848–1907 Cornish, New Hampshire) Date: 1878 Medium: Bronze Accession: 24.20 On view in:Gallery 764