Thoroughbred Horse
date: label: Date
content: (1883/cast c. 1895-1910)
name: label: Artist
content: Jean-Léon Gérôme, French, b. Vesoul, 1824–1904
notes: label: Provenance
content: Grant Barney Schley, New York and Far Hills, New Jersey, purchased in Paris at turn of 20th Century
label: Provenance
content: Mrs. Max Howell Behr, New York and Far Hills, New Jersey (daughter of Mr. Schley)
label: Provenance
content: Mr. and Mrs. Griffin, Sanborn, Cannes, 1968 (Mrs. Griffin: daughter of Mrs. Max Howell Behr)
label: Provenance
content: Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York, 1968-6 March 1972
label: Provenance
content: Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1972
label: Exhibition History
content: HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Inaugural Exhibition," 4 October 1974-15 September 1975.
label: Exhibition History
content: HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "The Animal in Art: Selections from the Hirshhorn Museum Collection," 17 November 1977-15 January 1978, no. 26.
label: Exhibition History
content: ARNOT ART MUSEUM, Elmira, New York. "Bronze Animaliers," 5 October-30 November 1985.
label: Published References
content: LERNER, ABRAM, et al. The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (New York: Abrams, 1974), p. 694, ill. 46.
label: Published References
content: HUDSON, ANDREW. "Washington Letter," Art international 14/6 (15 June 1975), p. 100.
label: Published References
content: ACKERMAN, GERALD. "Gerome's Sculptures: the Problems of Realist Sculpture," Arts Magazine (February 1986), p. 83 (cites HMSG cast--according to VJF, 16 July 1996, see memo in provenance file).
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content: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Collection
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1972
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 72.130
objectType: label: Type
content: Sculpture
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Bronze
label: Dimensions
content: 25 3/8 X 28 3/4 X 8 1/2 IN. (64.4 X 73.0 X 21.6 CM.)