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About the Artwork

Amor Caritas

1898

Augustus Saint-Gaudens

1848 - 1907

American

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Bronze

Overall: 40 × 17 inches (101.6 × 43.2 cm) Overall (including wood frame): 51 1/2 × 32 × 16 1/8 inches (130.8 × 81.3 × 41 cm)

Sculpture

American Art before 1950

Detroit Museum of Art Purchase, Popular Subscription Fund

15.9

Public Domain

Markings

Signed and dated, at bottom of left pilaster: Augustus Saint-Gaudens MDCCCXCVIII

Inscribed, on plaque at top of piece: AMOR CARITAS

Provenance

Mrs. Saint-Gaudens;
1915-present, purchase through the Popular Subscription Fund for the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Cortissoz, Royal. Augustus Saint-Gaudens. Boston, 1907, p. 3 [ill. of unidentified example].

Memorial Exhibition of the Works of Augustus Saint-Gaudens. Exh. cat., The Carnegie Institute. Pittsburgh, 1909, p. 19, nos. 34 and 77.

Saint-Gaudens, Homer, ed. The Reminiscences of Augusts Saint-Gaudens. New York, 1913, Vol. 1, pp. 179, 222-224, 272-274, 350, 354; Vol. 2, pp. 128-132, 193, 197, 202, 345.

Bulletin of the DMA 10, no.1 (1915): p. 3 (ill.).

Dryfhout, John H. The Work of Augustus Saint-Gaudens. Hanover, New Hampshire, 1982, pp. 234-235, no. 169.

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Credit Line for Reproduction

Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Amor Caritas, 1898, bronze. Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit Museum of Art Purchase, Popular Subscription Fund, 15.9.

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