Auguste Préault
Le Silence
1841-1842
Physical Qualities
Plaster, 16 in. (40.6 cm.)
Credit Line
Purchase with exchange funds from Nelson and Juanita Greif Gutman Collection
Object Number
2004.97
Funerary Monument
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 2004; Christie's London, Sale #6915, June 17, 2004, Lot #58; Anonymous Sale, Sotheby's, London, 5 July 2000, Lot #203
S. Lami, Dictionnaire des Sculpteurs de l'Ecole Française, au Dix-Neuvième Siècle, Paris, 1914, vol. 8, p. 116.
Sotheby's - London,European Sculpture and Works of Art 900 - 1900,Wednesday, 5 July 2000,Lot Number 203, Page 151.
Christie's - London, "19th Century European Art, Including the John H. Schaeffer Collection of 19th Century European Sculpture, 17 June 2004 at 11:00 a.m.," Lot Number 58, Sale 6916, Page 696, Page 71.
"Augustus Saint-Gaudens, 1848-1907: A Master of American Sculpture," Musée des Augustins, Toulouse and Musée national de la Cooperération frano-américaine, Château de Blérancourt, p. 25, ill.
Inscribed: Signed, "Auguste Préault"
