Wayne and Virginia C. MacVeagh, model 1902-1903, cast 1906

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Medium

bronze

Dimensions

overall: 98.43 × 146.37 × 2.86 cm (38 3/4 × 57 5/8 × 1 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Gift of Margaretta C. MacVeagh Farrar-Smith, through Captain Stuart Farrar-Smith)

Accession Number

2014.136.251

Artists / Makers

Augustus Saint-Gaudens (sculptor) American, born Ireland, 1848 - 1907

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Inscription

lower right, artist's initials in monogram: MDCC / ASG / CCII

Provenance

Commissioned as a cast after the marble original (which they owned and had also commissioned) by Wayne [1833-1917] and Virginia Rolette Cameron [1840-1920] MacVeagh, Washington and Philadelphia;[1] by inheritance to their daughter, Margaretta Cameron MacVeagh Farrar Smith [d. 1938], Washington; her husband, Captain Stuart Farrar Smith [d. 1951], Washington; gift 1940 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2014 by the National Gallery of Art.

[1] MacVeagh, an American lawyer, U.S. Attorney General in 1881, and Ambassador to Turkey from 1894 to 1897, was married twice; first to Letitia Lewis [d. 1866], and then to Virginia Cameron. It is his second wife who is depicted in the relief.

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
MacVeagh, Wayne Mr. and Mrs.
Smith, Margaretta MacVeagh Farrar
Smith, Stuart Farrar Captain

Exhibition History

1908: Augustus Saint-Gaudens Memorial Exhibition, American Institute of Architects at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 7 December 1908 - 1 January 1909, no. 94.

1969: Augustus Saint-Gaudens: The Portrait Reliefs, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, 12 November 1969 - 31 January 1970, no. 50, repro.

1974: Nineteenth Century Sculpture, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 3 March - 26 May 1974, unpublished and unnumbered checklist.

1999: Augustus Saint-Gaudens, 1848-1907: un maitre de la sculpture americaine, Musee des Augustins, Toulouse; Musee de la Cooperation franco-americaine, Chateau de Blerancourt, France, 12 February - 18 October 1999.

2009: American Bronzes from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 29 April 2009 - 2013, no catalogue.

Bibliography

1997: James-Gadzinski, Susan and Mary Mullen Cunningham. American Sculpture in the Museum of American Art of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Philadelphia and Seattle, 1997: 109.