Gaston de Foix on Horseback
model 1839/1840, cast after 1855
Artist, French, 1795 - 1875
West Building Ground Floor, Gallery G8
Artwork overview
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Medium
bronze
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 33.5 x 32.1 x 13.7 cm (13 3/16 x 12 5/8 x 5 3/8 in.)
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Accession
1980.44.2
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Bernard Black Gallery, New York), until 1969; Bernard Black and Hugues-W. Nadeau, New York and Europe;[1] (their sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, 3 December 1971, no. 50); purchased by (Lock Galleries, New York) for Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, Upperville, Virginia;[2] gift 1980 to NGA.
[1] Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, Bronzes by Antoine-Louis Barye. The Bernard Black - Hugues Nadeau Collection, 3 December 1971, no. 50, repro. According to the unpaginated foreword, the partners of the Bernard Black Gallery retained a selection of Barye casts as a study collection after closing the gallery in 1969.
[2] In NGA curatorial files.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1974
Nineteenth-Century Sculpture, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1974, unnumbered checklist.
Bibliography
1994
Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: 25, 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: 30-33, color repro.
Poletti, Michel, and Alain Richarme. Barye: catalogue raisonné des sculptures. Paris, 2000: 68, no. F5.
Inscriptions
incised into model and enhanced through coldwork on top left side of base: BARYE
Wikidata ID
Q63854533