AFTER THE MODEL BY AUGUSTUS SAINT GAUDENS, PROBABLY THE CHIURAZZI WORKSHOP, NAPLES, LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY

The bust of the young Augustus is illustrated on page 31 of the 1911 Chiurazzi and De Angelis catalogue. The present bust was derived from the Augustus Primaporta, the original copy was modelled by Augustus Saint Gaudens in Rome in 1872-73. Cf. J. H. Dryfhout, The work of Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Lebanon, 1982, p. 63, no 33.