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alb3627743 George Washington Inaugural Centennial Medal. Artist: Augustus Saint-Gaudens (American, Dublin 1848-1907 Cornish, New Hampshire); Modeled by Philip Martiny (1858-1927). Dimensions: Diam. 4 1/2 in. (11.4 cm). Date: 1889.In winter 1888-89 Saint Gaudens received his first official medallic commission, from the Committee on Art and Exhibition of the Washington Centennial Celebration. The medal was to be the official souvenir for the centennial of George Washington's swearing-in as first president of the United States on April 30, 1789 at New York's Federal Hall.Although he designed the medal, Saint-Gaudens turned its modeling over to his assistant Philip Martiny. The half-length profile portrait of Washington in Continental uniform on the front face of the medal harks back to the authoritative sculptural likenesses of the pater patriae by Jean Antoine Houdon, the full-length marble statue of 1792 in the State Capitol in Richmond, Virginia, which was in turn based on a life portrait from 1785. At the right are the fasces of majesty, the bundle of staves representing the United States and the axe and blade its military and executive power. Thirteen stars symbolizing the original states are evenly spaced near the edge. On the reverse, an American eagle with spread wings and arrows and an olive branch in its claws bears a shield with the inscription E PLVRIBVS VNVM (Out of many, one). At the lower left are a lengthy commemorative inscription and the shield of the shield of arms of New York City. Around the border are thirty-eight stars representing the number of states in the union in April 1889. The medal's compositional format and technique are strongly indebted to the Renaissance medallic art Saint-Gaudens admired. (He collected plasters casts after Pisanello to display in his studio.)The medal was cast by Gorham Manufacturing Company in an edition of 2000 bronze and 10 silver examples. Henry Gurdon Marquand, chairman of the Committee on Art and Exhibition and president of The Metropolitan Museum of Art donated two examples (90.18.1, .2) of this medal to the Museum in 1890. They were the first works by Saint-Gaudens to enter the collection. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

alb3614177 Jules Bastien-Lepage. Artist: Augustus Saint-Gaudens (American, Dublin 1848-1907 Cornish, New Hampshire). Dimensions: 14 3/4 x 10 1/2 in. (37.5 x 26.7 cm). Date: 1880, cast 1910.Saint-Gaudens first met the artist Jules Bastien-Lepage (1848-1884) in 1868 while studying at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He renewed his acquaintance with the French painter upon his return to Paris in 1877, and, as Saint-Gaudens later recalled, Bastien-Lepage "asked if I would make a medallion of him in exchange for a portrait of myself. Of course I agreed to the proposal." The last and most ambitious of the medallions depicting artist-friends completed during the sculptor's French tenure (1877-80), this portrait announces a complete technical and compositional mastery of the bas-relief. The painter's compact form fills the right and center of the composition, while his palette and brushes command its lower third. His hair and beard are neatly kept, and he wears a jacket, shirt with upraised collar, and loosely knotted tie. Bastien-Lepage's pride in his profession is sensitively expressed through his erect posture, vibrant and assured gaze, and comfortable grasp of the tools of his trade. The portrait evidently pleased Saint-Gaudens. According to his son Homer, "none of the medallions my father then modeled satisfied him to the extent of that of Bastien-Lepage, both because he believed the relief was as near perfection as he ever came, and because he was greatly interested in a rare combination of talent and vanity in his sitter." In this instance, Saint-Gaudens visually expressed Bastien-Lepage's egotism by accommodating his request that his hands not be depicted too prominently. Indeed, in the best of Saint-Gaudens' portraits, one senses an infusion of the sitter's character and a recording of psychological impressions. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

alb3665383 George Washington Inaugural Centennial Medal. Artist: Augustus Saint-Gaudens (American, Dublin 1848-1907 Cornish, New Hampshire); Modeled by Philip Martiny (1858-1927). Dimensions: Diam. 4 5/8 in. (11.7 cm). Date: 1889.In winter 1888-89 Saint Gaudens received his first official medallic commission, from the Committee on Art and Exhibition of the Washington Centennial Celebration. The medal was to be the official souvenir for the centennial of George Washington's swearing-in as first president of the United States on April 30, 1789 at New York's Federal Hall.Although he designed the medal, Saint-Gaudens turned its modeling over to his assistant Philip Martiny. The half-length profile portrait of Washington in Continental uniform on the front face of the medal harks back to the authoritative sculptural likenesses of the pater patriae by Jean Antoine Houdon, the full-length marble statue of 1792 in the State Capitol in Richmond, Virginia, which was in turn based on a life portrait from 1785. At the right are the fasces of majesty, the bundle of staves representing the United States and the axe and blade its military and executive power. Thirteen stars symbolizing the original states are evenly spaced near the edge. On the reverse, an American eagle with spread wings and arrows and an olive branch in its claws bears a shield with the inscription E PLVRIBVS VNVM (Out of many, one). At the lower left are a lengthy commemorative inscription and the shield of the shield of arms of New York City. Around the border are thirty-eight stars representing the number of states in the union in April 1889. The medal's compositional format and technique are strongly indebted to the Renaissance medallic art Saint-Gaudens admired. (He collected plasters casts after Pisanello to display in his studio.)The medal was cast by Gorham Manufacturing Company in an edition of 2000 bronze and 10 silver examples. Henry Gurdon Marquand, chairman of the Committee on Art and Exhibition and president of The Metropolitan Museum of Art donated two examples (90.18.1, .2) of this medal to the Museum in 1890. They were the first works by Saint-Gaudens to enter the collection. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.