
Admiral David Glasgow Farragut
Gift by subscription through the Saint-Gaudens Memorial Committee, 1912
Catalogue
- Year
- 1879
- Medium
- Bronze and marble
- Dimensions
- 11 x 8 x 8 3/4 in. (27.9 x 20.3 x 22.2 cm)
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Artist
- Augustus Saint-Gaudens
Artist
Sculpture
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 in New York City. He traveled to Europe for further training and artistic study. After he returned to New York City, he achieved major critical success for his monuments commemorating heroes of the American Civil War, many of which still stand. Saint-Gaudens created works such as the Robert Gould Shaw Memorial on Boston Common, Abraham Lincoln: The Man, and grand equestrian monuments to Civil War generals: General John Logan Memorial in Chicago's Grant Park and William Tecumseh Sherman at the corner of New York's Central Park. In addition, he created the popular historicist representation of The Puritan.
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Record
Verified by WattsOS- Artist
- Augustus Saint-Gaudens
- Year
- 1879
- Medium
- Bronze and marble
- Dimensions
- 11 x 8 x 8 3/4 in. (27.9 x 20.3 x 22.2 cm)
- Watts ID
- WW-1879-337754
Source
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Source
- met
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified





