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    		• Outdoor Sculpture -- New Hampshire -- Cornish
     
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    Amor Caritas, (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    Saint-Gaudens, Augustus, 1848-1907, sculptor.
    Saint-Gaudens, Louis, 1854-1913, sculptor.
    Modern Art Foundry, founder.
    Title: 
    Amor Caritas, (sculpture).
    Other Titles: 
    Angel with Tablet, (sculpture).
    Dates: 
    1880. 1887. 1898. Cast 1975-1976.
    Digital Reference: 
    Image Image
    Medium: 
    Sculpture: bronze; Base: concrete.
    Dimensions: 
    Sculpture: approx. 8 ft. x 4 ft. x 12 in.; Base: approx. 18 in. x 4 ft. x 18 in.
    Inscription: 
    (On plaque held by figure:) AMOR CARITAS (On sculpture:) AMOR CARITAS/Cast in 1975-6 by the Modern Art Foundry, Long Island City, N.Y., made from the plaster Founder's mark appears.
    Description: 
    Full-length high relief female figure of an angel with wings. Her arms are raised over her shoulders and she holds a tablet, or plaque, in her hands above her head. She wears long flowing robes. A girdle of passion flowers encircles her hips and a crown of flowers encircles her head. The gilded bronze sculpture stands in a shallow rectangular niche.
    Subject: 
    Religion -- Angel
    Object Type: 
    Outdoor Sculpture -- New Hampshire -- Cornish
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    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    Administered by United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Washington, District of Columbia
    Located Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site, RR 3, Box 73, Cornish, New Hampshire 03745 Accession Number: SGNHS#1867
    Remarks: 
    Nearby plaque: "Angel with Tablet. Amor Caritas. New York City, 1880, 1887; Paris 1898. This statue was purchased by the French government for the Luxembourg Museum. It was exhibited at the Exposition Universale of 1900, where Saint Gaudens won the Grand Prize. This version was cast in bronze from the original plaster in 1975."
    References: 
    Save Outdoor Sculpture, New Hampshire survey, 1993.
    Dryfhout, John, "The Work of Augustus Saint-Gaudens", Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1982, pg. 234-235.
    Illustration: 
    Image on file.
    Note: 
    The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide.
    Repository: 
    Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012
    Control Number: 
    IAS NH000549
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