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Robert Louis Stevenson

Date
1887–88; cast 1898–1914
Material
Bronze
Classification
Metalwork, sculpture
Collection
American Art
Current Location
Not on view
Dimensions
diameter: 17 1/4 in. (43.8 cm)
framed: 26 3/4 × 24 1/2 in. (67.9 × 62.2 cm)
Credit Line
Museum Purchase
Rights
Public Domain
Object Number
28:1915
NOTES
Augustus Saint-Gaudens is best known as a master of delicate, painterly portrait reliefs such as this one of the novelist and poet Robert Louis Stevenson. The writer suffered from tuberculosis, and Saint-Gaudens depicted him leaning against the pillows on his hotel room bed. The text accompanying the portrait is a poem by Stevenson dedicated to the mutual friend who introduced Stevenson and Saint-Gaudens.
1915 -
Saint Louis Art Museum, purchased from Kennedy & Co., New York, NY [1]

Notes:
[1] Minutes of the Administrative Board of Control of the City Art Museum, March 4, 1915. Bill of Sale dated April 1, 1915 [SLAM document files].

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