Portrait of a Boy, (painting).

Portrait of a Boy, (painting).

Sargent, John Singer, 1856-1925, painter.

Portrait of a Boy, (painting).

Homer Saint-Gaudens and His Mother, (painting).

Homer Saint-Gaudens, (painting).

Portrait, (painting).

Portrait - Son of Mr. St. Gaudens, (painting).

Digital Reference:

59 3/4 x 56 in. (151.8 x 142.2 cm)

Portrait of a ten year old Homer Saint-Gaudens seated beside his mother (Mrs. Augustus Homer Saint-Gaudens, 1848-1926) who reads to him from a storybook.

Portrait group -- Family -- Mother & Child

Portrait male -- Saint-Gaudens, Homer -- Child

Portrait female -- Saint-Gaudens, Augustus Homer, Mrs. (Augusta) -- Full length

Recreation -- Leisure -- Reading

Object -- Written Matter -- Book

Carnegie Institute, Museum of Art, 4400 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213 Accession Number: 32.1

Formerly in the collection of Saint-Gaudens, Augustus, Cornish, New Hampshire until 1907.

Saint-Gaudens, Augustus, Mrs. (Augusta), until 1926.

Saint-Gaudens, Homer, until 1932.

Purchased 1932.

Paris Salon of 1891, Paris, 1891, no. 850.

World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893.

Carnegie Institute 1897 International Exhibition, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 1897-1898, no. 198.

Pan American Exposition, Buffalo, 1901, no. 26.

Homer Saint-Gaudens (1880-1958), son of sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens, later became Director of the Department of Fine Arts, Carnegie Institute, 1922-1950. Sargent painted the portrait in exchange for a bas-relief of his sister Violet, modeled by his sculptor-friend, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, the boy's father.

Ormond, Richard and Elaine Kilmurray, "John Singer Sargent: complete paintings; volume 2, Portraits of the 1890s," New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2002, no. 243.

Strazdes, Diana, "American paintings and sculpture to 1945 in the Carnegie Museum of Art," New York: Hudson Hills Press in association with the Carnegie Museum of Art, 1992.

Carnegie Institute, Museum of Art, 1990.

Catalogue of Painting Collection, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, 1973, pg. 152.

American Heritage, Vol. Xxiv, No. 1, 1972.

McKibbin, David, "Sargent's Boston," Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 1956.

Exh. Catalog, "First Exh. of Selected Paintings by American. Artist," Calif. Palace of Legion of Honor, 1926-27.

Ormond, Richard and Elaine Kilmurray, "John Singer Sargent: complete paintings; volume 2, Portraits of the 1890s," New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2002, pg. 29.

Strazdes, Diana, "American paintings and sculpture to 1945 in the Carnegie Museum of Art," New York: Hudson Hills Press in association with the Carnegie Museum of Art, 1992, pg. 419.

Catalogue of Painting Collection, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, 1973, pl. 58.

American Art Review (Mar.-Apr. 1975).

American Heritage, Vol. XXIV, No. 1, pg. 64.

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.

Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012

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