Building America: The Wolf Family Collection
Building America: The Wolf Family Collection
Daniel Chester French
Seated Lincoln
Auction Closed
April 21, 08:50 PM GMT
Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Daniel Chester French
1850 - 1931
Seated Lincoln
inscribed DC FRENCH / June 1915 (on the reverse); inscribed ROMAN BRONZE WORKS N.Y. (along the base)
bronze
9¾ in. (24.8 cm.) high
Conceived in 1915.
Peter Tillou Gallery, Litchfield, Connecticut
Wolf Family Collection No. 0296 (acquired from the above on January 29, 1979)
Wolf Family Collection No. 0296 (acquired from the above on January 29, 1979)
Exh. Cat., New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution, The National Collection of Fine Arts; Detroit, The Detroit Institute of Arts; Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University, Fogg Art Museum, Daniel Chester French: An American Sculptor, 1976-77, no. 8, p. 175, illustration of another cast