Signed and dated, at bottom of left pilaster: Augustus Saint-Gaudens MDCCCXCVIII
Inscribed, on plaque at top of piece: AMOR CARITAS
Bronze
Detroit Museum of Art Purchase, Popular Subscription Fund
15.9
American Art before 1950
Signed and dated, at bottom of left pilaster: Augustus Saint-Gaudens MDCCCXCVIII
Inscribed, on plaque at top of piece: AMOR CARITAS
Mrs. Saint-Gaudens
1915-present, purchase through the Popular Subscription Fund for the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
Cortissoz, Royal. Augustus Saint-Gaudens. Boston, 1907, p. 3 (ill. of unidentified example). Memorial Exhibition of the Works of Augustus Saint-Gaudens. Exh. cat., The Carnegie Institute. Pittsburgh, 1909, p. 19, nos. 34 and 77. Saint-Gaudens, Homer, ed. The Reminiscences of Augusts Saint-Gaudens. New York, 1913, Vol. 1, pp. 179, 222-224, 272-274, 350, 354; Vol. 2, pp. 128-132, 193, 197, 202, 345. Bulletin of the DMA 10, 1 (1915): p. 3 (ill.). Dryfhout, John H. The Work of Augustus Saint-Gaudens. Hanover, NH, 1982, pp. 234-235, no. 169.
Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Amor Caritas, 1898, bronze. Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit Museum of Art Purchase, Popular Subscription Fund, 15.9.