Augustus Saint-Gaudens was an American sculptor of the Beaux-Arts generation who embodied the ideals of the American Renaissance. Saint-Gaudens was born in Dublin to an Irish-French family, and raised
Saint-Gaudens in 1905
Portrait of Augustus's wife Augusta and their son, Homer Saint-Gaudens, by John Singer Sargent, 1890
Adams Memorial, Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C. (1891)
Diana (1892–93). Bronze, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
The Puritan is a bronze statue by sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens in Springfield, Massachusetts, which became so popular that it was reproduced for over 20 other cities, museums, universities, and pri
The Puritan
The plaster bust of Chester W. Chapin, reportedly used as the model for the face of the statue.
Photograph of the statue in Springfield, by the Detroit Publishing Company (1905).
Part of The Puritan by Augustus Saint-Gaudens