Etching of Augustus Saint-Gaudens by Anders Zorn, 1897

Making of the Memorial The Sculptor: Augustus Saint-Gaudens

Item contributed by The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Isabella Stewart Gardner collected this etching of Augustus Saint-Gaudens by painter and printmaker Anders Zorn, in 1897. Saint-Gaudens and Zorn met at the Chicago World’s Fair in 1893, and they remained in the same creative circle. Apparently dissatisfied with his rendering of his friend, Zorn wrote on this print, “a bad portrait of St. Gaudens to Mrs. Gardner.”