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Robert Louis Stevenson

Artist Augustus Saint-Gaudens American, born Ireland, 1848–1907

Date1887–88, this cast 1895–1926

MediumBronze

Dimensionsoverall: 17 9/16 x 17 3/16 in. (44.6 x 43.7cm)
other: 1/2 in. (1.3cm)
frame: 24 1/8 x 27 7/8 in. (61.3 x 70.8cm)

ClassificationsSculpture

Credit LineGift of Norman and Judith Topper

Object number97.8

On View

On view

ProvenanceEdward Spitzer, New York, ca. 1920; to sister Charlotte Spitzer, New York, 1930; to husband William Porges, to wife Mildred Topper Porges, New York, 1955; to son Norman Topper, Pittsboro, NC, 1972; given to NCMA, 1997.

Published ReferencesJohn H. Dryfhout, The Work of Augustus Saint-Gaudens (Hanover: University Press of New England, 1982), cat. no. 133 (this specific cast not listed). La Chronique des Arts (supplement to) Gazette des Beaux-Arts, no. 1562 (March 1999), illus. (b-w) 64. "Acquisitions," North Carolina Museum of Art Annual Report (1997-98), illus. (b-w) 46. John W. Coffey, "Tributes to Human Character: Saint-Gaudens's Timeless Portraits," Preview: The Magazine of the North Carolina Museum of Art (March/April 2003), briefly discussed 5, illus. (color) 4.

Exhibition HistoryWilmington, NC, Louise Wells Cameron Art Museum, "18th and 19th Century American Art from the Collection of the North Carolina Museum of Art," June 20, 2003-February 22, 2004. Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," October 7, 2022–present.

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