On photo mount label: R. Evans. The golden hour (front view). Photographer: Ward. New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art negative: 42742D. Classification number: 282/E92/954. Accession: 57508.
This statue was begun in Paris between 1914 and 1915 by a stonecutter working under the supervision of Frederick MacMonnies and was finished by Evans in New York in 1918. The sculpture is a marble replica of the artist's life-size gilt bronze statue that was awarded a bronze medal at the Paris Salon of 1914. This replica, a gift of Frank A. Vanderlip, was deaccessioned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1997.
Tolles, Thayer, ed., "American Sculpture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Volume 2: A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born between 1865 and 1885," New York: Ny: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2001, pg. 630.
1 photographic print : b&w, 9 1/4 x 4 5/8 in. (trimmed), mounted on 9 3/4 x 13 7/8 in. board.
Ex. collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.2
