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Study for the Violet Sargent Bronze Plaque in the Art Institute of Chicago

Augustus Saint-Gaudens, American, 1848 – 1907

Young woman, three-quarter-length, seated with head in profile, directed to right; hands in lap. Enclosed in rectangle with filling of curved lines in upper right corner. Below in small square, a bust with head in three-quarter view to right.

Date

1890

Type

sculpture

Medium

Pen and purple ink on cream laid paper

Department

CHNDM

Institution

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Object number

chndm_1937-70-3

Credit

Gift of Homer Saint-Gaudens