Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848-1907)
Robert Louis Stevenson
inscribed 'TO ROBERT LOVIS / STEVENSON,' 'AVGVSTVS / SAINT GAVDENS,' 'M•D•C•C•C•L•X•X•X•V•I•I' and inscribed with the poem To Will H. Low (upper half) and inscribed 'COPYRIGHT BY AVGVSTVS•SAINT•GAVDENS' (lower center)
bronze with brown patina
17 3/4 in. (45.1 cm.) high
Modeled in 1887.
Footnotes:
Provenance
(probably) Winthrop Williams Aldrich (1885-1974), United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom, London, England.
Colonel Hester, United States Marine Corps, gift from the above, circa 1956.
Captain O. Henry Alexander, United States Naval Medical Corps (1900-1964) and Muriel W. Alexander, gift from the above, 1958.
Gift to the present owner, daughter of the above, 1980s.

Literature
R. Cortissoz, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, New York, 1907, p. 25, another example illustrated.
C.L. Hind, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, New York, 1908, pp. 18, 40-1, another example illustrated.
The American Institute of Architects, Augustus Saint-Gaudens: Biography Exhibition of His Works and Memorial Meeting, Washington, D.C., 1908, pp. 5, 15, 44-46, 80, 93, nos. 50-52, 127, another example illustrated.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Catalogue of a Memorial Exhibition of the Works of Augustus Saint-Gaudens, exhibition catalogue, New York, 1908, pp. 25-8, 62, 82, nos. 50-1A, 119, other examples listed.
C.H. Caffin, American Masters of Sculpture: Being Brief Appreciations of Some American Sculptors and of Some Phases of Sculpture in America, New York, 1913, p. 16, another example illustrated. (as Relief Portrait of Robert Louis Stevenson)
H. Saint-Gaudens, The Reminiscences of Augustus Saint-Gaudens New York, 1913, vol. 1, n.p., another example illustrated.
H. Saint-Gaudens, The Reminiscences of Augustus Saint-Gaudens New York, 1913, vol. 2, pp. 297, 363, another example illustrated.
B. Hollingsworth, D. Ward, W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., The National Sculpture Society, American Sculptors Series: 8, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, New York, 1948, pp. 23-25, other examples illustrated.
J.H. Dryfhout, B. Fox, Augustus Saint-Gaudens: The Portrait Reliefs, exhibition catalogue, New York, 1969, no. 40, another example illustrated.
L.H. Tharp, Saint-Gaudens and the Gilded Era, Boston, 1969, pp. 211, 217-18, 302-03, 331, another example illustrated.
J.H. Dryfhout, The Work of Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Hanover, New Hampshire, 1982, pp. 174-76, no. 133, other examples illustrated.
C.A. Cibulka, Marble and Bronze: 100 Years of American Sculpture, 1840-1940, exhibition catalogue, Washington, D.C., 1984, p. 15, no. 10, another example illustrated.
K. Greenthal, Augustus Saint-Gaudens: Master Sculptor, exhibition catalogue, New York, 1985, pp. 119-21, figs. 114-18, other examples illustrated.
B. Wilkinson, D. Finn, Uncommon Clay: The Life and Works of Augustus Saint-Gaudens, San Diego, California, 1985, n.p., another example illustrated.
M.A. Goley, B. Wilkinson, Augustus Saint-Gaudens: American Sculptor, From the Collection of the Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site, exhibition catalogue, Washington, D.C., 1992, pp. II, VIII, no. 31, another example listed.
T. Tolles, ed., L. Dimmick, D.J. Hassler, T. Tolles, J.L. Thompson, American Sculpture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Volume I. A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born before 1865., vol. I, New York, 1999, pp. 288-92, nos. 124-5, other examples illustrated.
H.J. Duffy, J.H. Dryfhout, Augustus Saint-Gaudens: American Sculptor of the Gilded Age, exhibition catalogue, Washington, D.C., 2003, pp. 105-07, nos. 66-8, other examples illustrated.
J.H. Dryfhout, The Work of Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Lebanon, New Hampshire, 2008, pp. 174-75, nos. 133-2, other examples illustrated.
T. Tolles, Augustus Saint-Gaudens in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, exhibition catalogue, New York, 2009, p. 29, fig. 34, another example illustrated.

We are grateful to Dr. Henry Duffy for his assistance cataloguing this lot.