Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848-1907)

Homer Schiff Saint-Gaudens (1880-1958) was the only child of the artist. The plaque was made for Dr. Henry Schiff, a close friend of the artist, after whom the artist named his son. Additional examples of the present work are in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York, The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan, the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (plaster), The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York and the San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, California.