Puritan,+The

Date: ca. 1899
 * [[image:https://s3.amazonaws.com/saam.media/files/styles/x_large/s3/images/2001/2001.21_1a.jpg?itok=Seii3DVl width="230" height="324" link="@https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/puritan-59112"]] || Title: **The Puritan**

Artist: **Augustus Saint-Gaudens** Born: Dublin, Ireland 1848 Died: Cornish, New Hampshire 1907

Medium: bronze Dimensions: 31 x 19 1/2 x 13 1/4 in. (78.7 x 49.5 x 33.7 cm) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of the Samuel D. Chapin Family

Accession: 2001.21 || This work is a reduction of the monumental bronze sculpture, //The Puritan// (1883-1886), comissioned by Chester W. Chapin as a public memorial to his ancestor Deacon Samuel Chapin, a founder of Springfield, Massachusetts. Saint-Gaudens represents Chapin as the embodiment of a puritan leader, striding forth with his cape billowing. In the 1890s the sculptor began to make reductions of //The Puritan//, reworking the smaller pieces so they were not copies but renditions of the larger work.
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