The Empty Saddle, model March/December 1900, cast January 1901

Not on View

Medium

bronze

Dimensions

overall: 27.9 x 32.7 x 16.5 cm (11 x 12 7/8 x 6 1/2 in.) gross weight: 11 lb.

Credit Line

Gift of Joseph Ternbach

Accession Number

1971.1.1

Artists / Makers

Henry Merwin Shrady (artist) American, 1871 - 1922

Image Use

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Inscription

on side of base, below horse's left hind leg: H M SHRADY; beneath on lobes of four-leaf clover: H M S F[ecit]; below horse's right hind leg: COPYRIGHT 1900 / Theodore B. Starr.; inside cavity of base: [cast no.] 2, in circle / [possibly foundryman's initials] E.W., in circle / CIRE PERDUE CAST / ROMAN BRONZE WKS / N.Y.

Marks and Labels

FM: Roman Bronze Works

Provenance

(Theodore B. Starr and Son, New York), 1901.[1] Art market, New York; purchased c. 1950s by Joseph Ternbach, Forest Hills, New York; gift 1971 to NGA.

[1] Starr, who was primarily a jeweler, was the artist's agent, and Empty Saddle was apparently cast exclusively by Roman Bronze Works on commission from Starr.

Associated Names

Art market, New York
Starr and Son, Theodore B.
Ternbach, Joseph

Exhibition History

1971: Extended loan for use by Secretary Roger C.B. Morton, Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C., 1971-1974.

1974: Recent Acquisitions and Promised Gifts: Sculpture, Drawings, Prints, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1974, no. XI, repro.

Bibliography

1994: Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: 219, repro.

2000: Butler, Ruth, and Suzanne Glover Lindsay, with Alison Luchs, Douglas Lewis, Cynthia J. Mills, and Jeffrey Weidman. European Sculpture of the Nineteenth Century. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 2000: 469-474, color repro.