Lafayette on Horseback, n.d.

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Medium

bronze

Dimensions

overall: 54.61 × 22.23 × 36.83 cm (21 1/2 × 8 3/4 × 14 1/2 in.)
base: 1.27 × 26.67 × 10.16 cm (1/2 × 10 1/2 × 4 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Gift of Mrs. Armistead Peter III [Caroline Ogden-Jones Peter])

Accession Number

2015.19.3771

Artists / Makers

Paul Wayland Bartlett (sculptor) American, 1865 - 1925

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Provenance

The artist's widow, Suzanne Bartlett [1861-1954], Washington;[1] by inheritance to her daughter by her first husband, Mrs. Armistead Peter III [1894-1965, née Caroline Ogden-Jones], Washington; gift 1958 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art.

[1] Born Suzanne Frisby Earle, Mrs. Bartlett was married three times, in 1890 to Mahlon Ogden-Jones (1849-1900), in 1903 to Samuel Franklin Emmons (1841-1911), and lastly, in 1913 to the sculptor, whose studio she continued to operate after his death in 1925.

Associated Names

Bartlett, Paul Wayland, Mrs.
Corcoran Gallery of Art
Peter III, Armistead, Mrs.

Exhibition History

1970: American Sculpture, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, 11 September - 15 November 1970.

1979: The American Renaissance, 1876-1917, Brooklyn Museum; National Collection of Fine Arts (now Smithsonian American Art Museum), Washington; Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco; Denver Art Museum, 13 October 1979 - 30 November 1980.

1999: Paris 1900: The "American School" at the Universal Exposition, Montclair Museum of Art; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia; Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio; Elvejem Museum, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Musee Carnavalet, Paris, 18 September 1999 - 29 April 2001 (shown only in Montclair and Philadelphia).

Bibliography

1984: Craven, Wayne. Sculpture in America. Newark and New York, 1984: 457.