Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00001939Amor Caritas
Inscriptions
Inscribed, lower left: "AVGVSTVS./SAINT-GAVDENS/MDCCCXCVII" Plaque at top inscribed: "Amor Caritas"
Publications
George Eggers, Handbook of Sculpture, Architecture, Paintings, and Drawings: Part I: Architecture and Sculpture, part 1 (Art Institute of Chicago, 1920), 79, cat. 956, as Amor: Caritas (plaster version referenced). Lorado Taft, The History of American Sculpture (Macmillan, 1924), 288–89, 296, fig. 42 (another version illustrated). Judith A. Barter, et al., American Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times to World War I (Art Institute of Chicago, 1998), 267–270, cat. 132 (ill.).
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Augustus Saint-Gaudens (American, born Ireland, 1848–1907)
- Date
- Modeled 1897, cast after 1899
- Medium
- Bronze
- Dimensions
- 131.4 × 80.7 cm (51 3/4 × 31 3/4 in.)
- Type
- Sculpture
- Classification
- sculpture
- Style
- Realism
- Place
- United States
- Department
- Arts of the Americas
- Credit line
- Roger McCormick Fund
- Accession no.
- 1982.211
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