There are two sculptures by Daniel Chester French in the Metropolitan Museum of Art for which Audrey Munson posed. These are "Memory" and "Mourning Victory from the Melvin Memorial". "American Venus" incorrectly calls this latter "Victory Mourning".
"Memory", by Daniel Chester French.
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Detail of "Memory".
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The curious thing about "Memory" is that French began the work in 1886, before Audrey Munson was born. As the plaque (see below) next to the sculpture says, he revised the sculpture in 1909, when Munson was in New York.
The other Munson-modeled work by French in the Met is "Mourning Victory from the Melvin Memorial". The original was sculpted in 1907 and is in the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord Massachusetts. The sculpture is commonly referred to as the "Melvin Memorial" as it commemorates the lives of Asa, John and Samuel Melvin, all members of Company K, First Massachusetts Heavy Artillery who died in the Civil War. The Melvin Memorial is considered one of the great war memorial sculptures in the United States.
More about Daniel Chester French
Lee Sandstead has a number of "Memory" photos
Douglas Yeo has more photos and information about Memory and the Melvin Memorial.
Melvin Memorial web site.
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