Homer Schiff Saint-Gaudens
Augustus Saint-Gaudens American
Carved by Piccirilli Brothers Marble Carving Studio
Here, Saint-Gaudens depicted his seventeen-month-old son, Homer Schiff Saint-Gaudens (1880–1958), seated in a child’s chair, the folds of his garment escaping its confines and his pudgy left hand gripping its arm. As the inscription, rendered in the sculptor’s characteristic lettering style, attests, the original portrait in bronze was presented to Dr. Henry Shiff, Saint-Gaudens’s Paris confidant and Homer’s namesake (with a slight variation in spelling). The sculptor kept another bronze on a wall of his Thirty-Sixth Street studio in New York City; it is visible in the background of Kenyon Cox’s painting of Saint-Gaudens (08.130).
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