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Rearing Horse

19th century
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 542
Two rearing horses, related in pose and size but different in their greenish patina—a later addition—were part of the Untermyer gift to the Metropolitan Museum. (They were deaccessioned because the present bronze is of finer quality.) There has been no satisfactory solution to the question of the facture of these horses. A debt to the equestrian monuments and models of Giovanni Bologna's seventeenth-century Florentine followers, such as Pietro Tacca, is manifest, but a French adaptation from the time of Louis XIV is equally possible.

[James D. Draper, 1984]

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Rearing Horse
  • Date: 19th century
  • Culture: European
  • Medium: Bronze, with pale brown natural patina, remains of dark brown lacquer
  • Dimensions: Overall (confirmed): 13 5/8 × 16 3/4 × 5 3/4 in. (34.6 × 42.5 × 14.6 cm)
    Base (confirmed): 8 3/8 in. (21.3 cm)
  • Classification: Sculpture-Bronze
  • Credit Line: The Jack and Belle Linsky Collection, 1982
  • Object Number: 1982.60.104
  • Curatorial Department: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

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