Cleveland Museum of Art
Amor Caritas
Augustus Saint-GaudensLinkedCulture matchlcp-ec04e44eaf47
- Date
- modeled 1898, cast after 1898
- Medium
- bronze
- Culture
- America, late 19th Century
- Department
- American Painting and Sculpture
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 105616
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
Saint-Gaudens based this angelic figure, an allegory of Love and Charity, on his longtime model and mistress, Davida Johnson Clark. The initial life-size bronze cast of the composition received much acclaim, and the artist regarded it as “one of the things I care for most that I have done.” Due to its popularity, approximately 20 smaller-scale versions, including this example, were produced by Saint-Gaudens and sold through high-end retail outlets such as Tiffany & Co. in New York. An elementary school in Manhattan is named in Saint-Gaudens's honor.
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- Credit line
- Gift of Mrs. Henry A. Everett for the Dorothy Burnham Everett Memorial Collection
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