Woman on Horseback (Equestrienne)
model 1917, cast c. 1930/1931
Sculptor, French, 1882 - 1935
Artwork overview
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Medium
bronze
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 27.62 × 25.4 × 11.43 cm (10 7/8 × 10 × 4 1/2 in.)
gross weight: 3.175 kg (7 lb.) -
Accession
2015.19.3778
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Weyhe Gallery, New York); purchased 1933 by Francis Biddle [1886-1968], Washington;[1] gift 1959 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art.
[1] The information about Biddle's purchase was given to Jennifer Wingate of the Corcoran by Virginia Budny, consultant to the Lachaise Foundation, Boston, in e-mails of 27 and 28 March 2007, in NGA curatorial files.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1963
The New Tradition: Modern Americans before 1940, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 27 April - 2 June 1963, no. 58, repro.
1976
The American Genius: W.W. Corcoran, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 24 January - 4 April 1976, unnumbered catalogue.
1979
Vanguard American Sculpture, 1913-1939, Rutgers University Art Gallery, New Brunswick, New Jersey; William Hayes Ackland Art Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha; Oakland Museum, 16 September 1979 - 25 May 1980, no. 62, fig. 46.
1981
Center Ring, The Artist: Two Centuries of Circus Art, Milwaukee Art Museum; Columbus Art Museum, Ohio; New York State Museum, Albany; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 7 May 1981 - 6 June 1982, no. 57, repro.
1987
Modernist Idylls: Nature and the Avant-Garde, 1905-1930, Allentown Art Museum, Pennsylvania, 8 March - 3 May 1987, unnumbered catalogue, repro.
Bibliography
1974
Nordland, Gerald. Gaston Lachaise: The Man and his Work. New York, 1974: 127-128.
Inscriptions
on top of the base, back left: G. LACHAISE / 1918; on vertical side of the base, behind the horse: ROMAN BRONZE WORKS NY
Markings
FM: Roman Bronze Works
Wikidata ID
Q63863969