Flayed Horse III, model c. 1820/1824, cast 1959-1960

West Building, Ground Floor - Gallery 8

Medium

bronze

Dimensions

overall: 23.2 x 21.7 x 11.6 cm (9 1/8 x 8 9/16 x 4 9/16 in.)

Credit Line

Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon

Accession Number

1980.44.9

Artists / Makers

Théodore Gericault (artist) French, 1791 - 1824

Image Use

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Inscription

incised after casting on self-base, next to right rear hoof: 7/15; foundry stamp impressed into the foundry model on rear edge of self-base: CIRE / C. VALSUANI / PERDUE

Marks and Labels

FM: Valsuani

Provenance

(Alex Reid & Lefèvre Ltd., London), 1959-1960; sold 25 October 1960 to Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, Upperville, Virginia; gift 1980 to NGA.

Associated Names

Mellon, Paul
Reid & Lefèvre, Ltd, Alex

Exhibition History

1960: XIX and XX Century French Paintings and Drawings, The Lefevre Gallery, London, 1960, no. 38.

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: 97, 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: 263-264, color repro.

2000: National Gallery of Art Special Issue. Connaissance des Arts. Paris, 2000:62.