Object Details
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- Augustus Saint-Gaudens created this uniface medallion portrait of his friend Kenyon Cox (1856-1919) to reciprocate for a portrait of the sculptor that Cox had painted in 1887. The two American artists had met while studying in Paris under painters Emile Auguste Carolus-Duran and Jean-Léon Gérôme in 1877. The exchange of such portraits among classically trained artists of Saint-Gaudens's generation expressed friendship and professional respect.
- Data Source
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Artist
- Augustus Saint-Gaudens, born Dublin, Ireland 1848-died Cornish, NH 1907
- Sitter
- Kenyon Cox
- Kenyon Cox
- Date
- 1889
- Credit Line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Bequest of Allyn Cox
- Medium
- bronze
- Type
- Sculpture
