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Inscription

on rear of base, lower left: GORHAM CO FOUNDERS Q75; on right side of base: D.C. FRENCH SC. / COPYRIGHTED

Marks and Labels

FM: Gorham Manufacturing Co.

Provenance

Gift 1955 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art.

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art

Exhibition History

1974
New York City Public Sculpture by 19th Century American Artists, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 18 June - September 1974.
1976
Daniel Chester French, An American Sculptor, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; National Collection of Fine Arts (now Smithsonian American Art Museum), Washington; Detroit Institute of Art; Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University, Cambridge, 4 November 1976 - 30 November 1977.
1984
Marble and Bronze: 100 Years of American Sculpture 1840-1940, Adams Davidson Galleries, Washington, 9 October - 16 November 1984, no. 15, repro.
1985
Cast in Shadow: Models for Public Sculpture in America, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, 12 October 1985 - 5 January 1986, no. 9, repro.

Bibliography

1928
Jackson, Rilla. American Art. New York, 1928: pl. CLXIII.
1976
Richman, Michael. Daniel Chester French: An American Sculptor. Washington, 1976: 94.

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