Horseman In A Storm

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Object Details

Artist
Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier, French, b. Lyons, 1815–1891
Date
(c. 1880-1885/cast after 1891)
Medium
Bronze
Dimensions
18 3/4 X 22 5/8 X 8 5/8 IN. (47.5 X 59.8 X 21.9 CM.)
Collection Object Type
Sculpture
Credit Line
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966
Accession Number
66.3531

Edward T. Pawlin, New York, to 7 January 1966
Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York, 7 January 1966-17 May 1966
Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Inaugural Exhibition," 4 October 1974-15 September 1975.
LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART. "The Romantics to Rodin: French Nineteenth Century Sculpture," 28 February-25 May 1980, no. 164, p. 301. TOUR: MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS, 25 June-21 September 1980; DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS, 27 October-4 January 1981; INDIANAPOLIS MUSEUM OF ARTS, 22 February-29 April 1981.
OKLAHOMA MUSEUM OF ART, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. "Sculptures from the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden," 9 August 1984-9 August 1985.

LERNER, ABRAM, et al. The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (New York: Abrams, 1974), p. 722, ill. 47.
HUDSON, ANDREW. "Washington Letter," Art International 19/6 (15 June 1975), p. 100.
UNSIGNED. "The Common Market in Art: Crosscurrents in Europe and America," Smithsonian Seminars in Washington, DC (24-29 April 1988), ill.

Signature
Incised On Back Of Base C: Meissonier
Inscriptions
Not DatedNo Inscriptions

Museum
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Alternate Title
Traveller
Edition

15

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