Saint Gaudens typically signed his own work in bronze no less with a hyphen his portrait of Jules Bastien Lepage 1880 for example or his portrait of William Picknell 1877 his portrait of his son Homer Saint Gaudens 1882 his portrait of Charles Beaman 1894 or his Washington Medal 1889 inscribed copyrighted by Augustus Saint Gaudens There were exceptions of course when he dropped the hyphen usually when signing with a monogram his medal of the artist John S Sargent 1880 is signed FECE A ST G