The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Rodman de Kay Gilder

Rodman de Kay Gilder

Date:: 1879, cast probably 1880
Medium:: Bronze
Dimensions:: 13 1/2 x 16 7/8 in. (34.3 x 42.9 cm)
Classification:: Sculpture
Credit Line:: Purchase, Morris K. Jesup Fund and Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Schwartz Gift, 1994
Accession Number:: 1994.50

This artwork is currently on display in Gallery 764

Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

Signature: [upper right]: • FE / A ST G [monogram] / CIT

Inscription: [lower center]: • RODMAN • DE KAY • GILDER • PARIS • SEPTEMBER • 1879 •
Provenance

the sitter's father, Richard Watson Gilder, died 1909; Rodman de Kay Gilder, died 1953; by descent in the family until 1993; Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, until 1994
See also
Who
Augustus Saint-Gaudens (57)
What
Metal (59,548)

Sculpture (23,287)

Copper alloy (16,533)

Bronze (11,706)
Where
North and Central America (79,690)

United States (76,407)
When
A.D. 1800-1900 (77,921)
In the Museum
American Paintings and Sculpture (5,390)
Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
Augustus Saint–Gaudens (1848–1907)

American Bronze Casting

American Relief Sculpture

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