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Not until they found themselves actually studying the sculpture of the western portal, did it dawn on Adams's mind that, for his purposes, St. Gaudens on that spot had more interest to him than the cathedral itself. Great men before great monuments express great truths, provided they are not taken too solemnly.
To one artistically inclined the creamy tower, modelled on that of the Giralda in Seville, suggests the collaboration of St. Gaudens and White, and the surmounting Diana the early work of the former inspired by Houdon's Diana of the Louvre.
For such a temper, Adams was not the best companion, since his own gaiety was not folle; but he risked going now and then to the studio on Mont Parnasse to draw him out for a stroll in the Bois de Boulogne, or dinner as pleased his moods, and in return St. Gaudens sometimes let Adams go about in his company. Once St. Gaudens took him down to Amiens, with a party of Frenchmen, to see the cathedral.
Young Mother with Child, by Furio Piccirilli. Wood Nymph, by Isidore Konti. Michael Angelo, by Robert Aitken. Muse Finding the Head of Orpheus, by Edward Berge. Flying Cupid, by Janet Scudder. Piping Pan, by Louis St. Gaudens. Circle at South End of Peristyle Bust of William Howard Taft, by Robert Aitken. Henry Ward Beecher, by John Quincy Adams Ward. Bust of Halsey C. Ives, by Victor S. Holm.
"Your father's friend, "ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON." The portrait was finished in bas-relief and many copies were made of it. The most familiar is the one giving only Stevenson's head and shoulders, but the splendid big one placed as a memorial to him in St. Giles's Cathedral in Edinburgh shows him as he must have looked that day lying in bed, writing to Homer St. Gaudens.
That superb work of art made its author a national figure, and Saint Gaudens took definitely that place at the head of American sculpture which was his until his death. Six years later Saint Gaudens's "Lincoln" was unveiled in Lincoln Park, Chicago, and was at once recognized as the greatest portrait statue in the United States.
It would, he observed to me, be in his opinion a long and possibly indecisive war, and must result in much of the overseas trade of both countries passing to a tertius gaudens, by which he meant the United States. I had little doubt that what he said to me on this occasion represented his real opinion. But I had in my mind the apprehension of an emergency of a different nature.
M. Lartet's investigations have fortunately been conducted in a spot which was above the reach of the ordinary inundations of the Drift Period, and whither human beings might have fled for refuge, or where they might have lived securely during long spaces of time. Gaudens, near the Pyrenees, a cavern was discovered in the nummulitic rock.
Of all the American artists who gave to American art whatever life it breathed in the seventies, St. Gaudens was perhaps the most sympathetic, but certainly the most inarticulate. General Grant or Don Cameron had scarcely less instinct of rhetoric than he. All the others the Hunts, Richardson, John La Farge, Stanford White were exuberant; only St.
The vacations of the Foch children were passed at the home of their paternal grandparents in Valentine, a large village about two miles from the town of St. Gaudens in the foothills of the Pyrénées. There they had the country pleasures of children of good circumstances, in a big, substantial house and a vicinity rich in tranquil beauty and outdoor opportunities.
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