Cow Lowing over a Fence, model c. 1845/1864, cast possibly by 1865

West Building, Ground Floor — Gallery G8

Medium

bronze

Dimensions

overall: 25.3 x 40.5 x 6 cm (9 15/16 x 15 15/16 x 2 3/8 in.)

framed: 28 x 44 x 6 cm (11 x 17 5/16 x 2 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon

Accession Number

1983.65.1

Artists / Makers

Christophe Fratin (artist) French, 1801 - 1864

Image Use

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Inscription

upper left reverse, by cold-work: n 2 [an inscription to its right has been obliterated by cold-work]

Provenance

Private collection; (Mallett at Bourdon House Limited, London), by November 1962; sold 1964 to Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, Upperville, Virginia;[1] gift 1983 to NGA.

[1] A. S. Ciechanowiechi, letter to to Anne Halpern dated 30 July 1996 (in NGA curatorial files). The verso bears handwritten numbers that may reflect dealers' or auction inventories as yet untraced: an encircled 7 (handwritten by an apparently modern hand in chalk); and an adhesive tag with the handwritten code number, also apparently modern, T-125.

Associated Names

Mallett at Bourdon House Limited
Mellon, Paul
Private Collection (NGA Former Owner)

Exhibition History

1962: The "Animaliers": French Animal Sculpture of the 19th Century, Mallett at Bourdon House Limited, London, 1962, no. 45.

Bibliography

1994: Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: 91, 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: 230-233, color repro.