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Augustus Saint-Gaudens

Amor Caritas (Angel of Love), 1898

Description

Maker

  • Augustus Saint-Gaudens, 1848-1907, American

Title

Amor Caritas (Angel of Love)

Year

1898

Medium

Bronze

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • bronze

Dimensions

102.6 x 43.2 x 10.8 cm (40 3/8 x 17 x 4 1/4 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Inscribed on tablet:AMOR CARITAS; signed and dated:AVGVSTVS SAINT GAVDENS MDCCCXCVIII Foundry mark on side, bottom right: E Cruet, Jeune, Fondeur, Avenue de Chatillon, Paris

Type

  • Sculpture

Credit

Museum Collection

Object Number

48.352

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Making It In America

October 11, 2013 - February 9, 2014

Amor Caritas is a smaller version of a gilded sculpture that Saint-Gaudens created at his studio in Cornish, New Hampshire. The draped angel was one of his signature themes, evolving from a figure he first invented for a private tomb and later transformed into mantelpiece caryatids for Cornelius Vanderbilt’s New York mansion. Saint-Gaudens learned relief carving—sculpting projected forms from a background support—through an early apprenticeship with cameo makers. Later formal training at Cooper Union, the National Academy of Design, and the École des Beaux-Arts, Paris, led him to an appreciation of Renaissance sculpture, whose humanizing of classical figures is evident in this “angel of love.”

An American Idyll

April 6, 2007 - January 6, 2008

After Eden

April 26 - December 29, 1996

Carvings, Casts, & Replicas

February 10 - April 23, 1995

Enid Yandell and the Branstock School

July 23 - August 29, 1982

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