Modern America: The Wolf Family Collection
Modern America: The Wolf Family Collection
Daniel Chester French
Painting and Sculpture and Architecture: A Pair of Allegorical Maquettes
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April 20, 07:56 PM GMT
Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 USD
Lot Details
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Daniel Chester French
1850 - 1931
Painting and Sculpture and Architecture: A Pair of Allegorical Maquettes
the first: inscribed D.C.F. / 1899 and ROMAN BRONZE WORKS N-Y- (along the base); the second: inscribed D.C.F. / 1898 and ROMAN BRONZE WORKS N-Y- (along the base)
each: bronze
each: 12½ in. (31.8 cm.) high
The first: conceived in 1899; the second: conceived in 1898.
Estate of Richard Morris Hunt
Clars Auction Gallery, Oakland, California, June 3, 2015, lot 6293
Wolf Family Collection No. 1287 (acquired from the above)
Exh. Cat., New York, Grand Central Art Galleries, 1927
Exh. Cat., New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Daniel Chester French: An American Sculptor, 1976, nos. 2-3, pp. 83-89
Exh. Cat., New York, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., Carved and Modeled: American Sculpture, 1810-1940, 1982, no. 26, p. 54, illustration of another cast (Architecture only)
Exh. Cat., Williamstown, Massachusetts, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Cast in the Shadow: Models for Public Sculpture in America, 1985-86, no. 12, p. 38, illustration of another cast (Painting and Sculpture only)