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William Maxwell Evarts

1872–73; carved 1874
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 763
Early in his career, Saint-Gaudens secured commissions for portrait busts of male sitters, which he executed in a hybrid real-ideal style that was popular at the time. This likeness of the prominent attorney William Maxwell Evarts (1818–1901), displayed at the Centennial Exhibition, is a naturalistic bust terminating in a classicizing undraped chest. When Evarts first met Saint-Gaudens in Rome, he was based in Geneva, Switzerland, as the United States’s counsel at the Alabama Claims tribunal, which had been convened to review sanctions against the British for aiding the Confederate cause during the Civil War.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: William Maxwell Evarts
  • Artist: Augustus Saint-Gaudens (American, Dublin 1848–1907 Cornish, New Hampshire)
  • Date: 1872–73; carved 1874
  • Culture: American
  • Medium: Marble
  • Dimensions: 22 7/8 x 12 3/4 x 9 1/4 in. (58.1 x 32.4 x 23.5 cm)
  • Credit Line: Gift of Erving and Joyce Wolf, in memory of Diane R. Wolf, 1987
  • Object Number: 1987.405
  • Curatorial Department: The American Wing

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