Anders Zorn (Mora, 1860 - 1920, Mora)
Augustus Saint-Gaudens I, 1897
Etching , 19.9 x 13.8 cm (7 13/16 x 5 7/16 in.)
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Commentary
Painter and printmaker Anders Zorn and sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens met at the Chicago World's Fair in 1893 and became fast friends and colleagues. They shared similar ebullient lifestyles and patrons including Isabella Stewart Gardner. Zorn frequently visited Saint-Gaudens’s studios in both New York and Paris, and in this etching, he captured his friend at rest in his artist’s smock. Apparently unsatisfied with his rendering, Zorn inscribed the print with “a bad portrait of St. Gaudens to Mrs. Gardner” when he gave it to her in 1897.