Cox and augustus saint-gaudens (1848–1907) met in paris in the 1870s and exchanged portraits in 1887: an oil painting for a bronze relief. The original canvas was lost in saint-gaudens’s 1904 studio fire, so cox created this replica in time for the metropolitan museum’s 1908 memorial exhibition of the sculptor’s work. Object Type: painting. Genre: religious art. Date: 1908. Place of creation: United States of America. Dimensions: height: 85.1 cm (33.5 in); width: 119.7 cm (47.1 in). Medium: oil on canvas. Depicted People: Augustus Saint-Gaudens. Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art. Portrait of Augustus Saint-Gaudens by Kenyon Cox
