Horseman in a Storm
model c. 1878, cast after 1894
Artist, French, 1815 - 1891
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 (including self-base): 47.2 x 59.3 x 23.9 cm (18 9/16 x 23 3/8 x 9 7/16 in.)
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Accession
1980.44.10
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(M. R. Schweitzer Gallery, New York); sold 18 April 1966 to Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, Upperville, Virginia; gift 1980 to NGA.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1966
Schweitzer Gallery, New York, 1966, as Napoleon in Russia.
1974
Nineteenth-Century Sculpture, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1974, unnumbered checklist, as The Retreat from Moscow.
Bibliography
1994
Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: 149, 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: 287-291, color repro.
2008
Penny, Nicholas. "The Evolution of the Plinth, Pedestal, and Socle." In Collecting Sculpture in Early Modern Europe. Nicholas Penny and Eike D. Schmidt, eds. Studies in the History of Art 70, Symposium Papers 47 (2008): 462, 463 fig. 3.
Inscriptions
incised in the model on left side of self-base and heightened after casting: Meissonier; cold-stamped behind horse's left rear hoof: 31; foundry mark cold-stamped onto right rear of self-base: Siot-Decauville / fondeur / Paris
Markings
FM: Siot Decauville
Wikidata ID
Q63854690