Inscription
incised in the foundry model on left side of self-base: FONDU PAR H.GONON ET SES DEUX FILS / 1832; stamped on underside of self-base: Dodanes / N40; glued to self-base, under a wood block, a label handwritten in graphite: Cire perdue / Etude de cheval / par Géricault / Donné par le baron de / M[on]ville
Marks and Labels
FM: Gonon, Jean-Honore
Provenance
Perhaps baron de Monville, active 1830s?-1860s; a gift possibly to an organization or charity sale.[1] Possibly Albert-Désiré Barre [d. 1878]; by descent through the family until 1968/1970.[2] Possibly (Georges Bernier, Paris), 1970.[3] (Cyril Humphris Ltd., London), 1970; sold 30 June 1971 to Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, Upperville, Virginia;[4] gift 1980 to NGA.
Exhibition History
- 1974
- Nineteenth-Century Sculpture, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1974, unnumbered checklist.
- 1991
- Géricault, Grand Palais, Paris, 1991-1992, no. 25.
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: 259-262, color repro.
- 2000
- National Gallery of Art Special Issue. Connaissance des Arts. Paris, 2000:62.
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