Rodman de Kay Gilder

Augustus Saint-Gaudens American

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 764

In one of Saint-Gaudens’s earliest representations of a child, the cherubic head of Rodman de Kay Gilder (1877-1953) floats on a field of bronze. The sculptor excerpted this head study from a portrait of the Gilder family completed several months earlier (2002.445). His love of technical experimentation is evident in the scumbled treatment of hair and clothing, resembling thickly applied paint; the wispy horizontal striations of the background, recalling etching; and the cornice-like architectural element above. Saint-Gaudens was particularly pleased by the quality of this bronze, which he cast in New York soon after returning from Paris.

Rodman de Kay Gilder, Augustus Saint-Gaudens (American, Dublin 1848–1907 Cornish, New Hampshire), Bronze, American

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Rodman de Kay Gilder, Augustus Saint-Gaudens (American, Dublin 1848–1907 Cornish, New Hampshire), Bronze, American
Rodman de Kay Gilder, Augustus Saint-Gaudens (American, Dublin 1848–1907 Cornish, New Hampshire), Bronze, American

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