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Augustus Saint-Gaudens 1848-1907
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Description
- Augustus Saint-Gaudens
- Robert Louis Stevenson, first version
- inscribed To Robert Louis Stevenson/From his friend Augustus/Saint-Gaudens New York/September MDCCC/LXXXVII
- bronze, brown patina
- 6 1/2 by 13 1/4 in.
- (16.5 by 33.7 cm)
Provenance
Acquired by the present owners' grandparents at the "Thieves" market, Paris, France, circa 1912
Literature
John H. Dryfhout, The Work of Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Hanover, New Hampshire, 1982, no. 132, pp. 173-74, illustration of another example