Marble head of Abraham Lincoln

This sculpture of the face of Abraham Lincoln, made by the American artist George Grey Barnard (1863-1938), was purchased in 1929 by Raymond Pitcairn from the Lucien Demotte Gallery in New York. George Joseph Demotte (1877-1923), the father of Lucien and a well-known art dealer, was at one time Barnard’s business partner. At the bottom of the back of the sculpture, carved onto a flat oval surface, is an inscription: “á Demotte Souvenir d'amitie (remembrance of friendship) Barnard 1923.”