French Cock Crowing, model c. 1860/1894, cast possibly 1890s/c. 1914

bronze

overall: 30.5 x 13.5 x 29.8 cm (12 x 5 5/16 x 11 3/4 in.)

1980.44.6

Auguste-Nicolas Cain (sculptor) French, 1821 - 1894

incised into model on front of self-base and enhanced with coldwork: CAIN; foundry cachet inset after casting at rear of self-base

FM: SUSSE FRÉRES EDITEURS / .PARIS.

(Bernard Black Gallery, New York); sold 31 May 1966 to Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, Upperville, Virginia;[1] gift 1980 to NGA.

[1] Donor records, in NGA curatorial files.

Black Gallery, Bernard
Mellon, Paul

1974: Nineteenth-Century Sculpture, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1974, unnumbered checklist.

1994: Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: 37, 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: 52-55, color repro.