Live Auction 2374500 Years: Decorative Arts Europe Including Oriental Carpets and Including Sculpture from the Collection of Michael Hall
A BRONZE MODEL OF A PACING HORSE
Lot 169

A BRONZE MODEL OF A PACING HORSE

WORKSHOP OF BARTHELEMY PRIEUR (1536-1611), LATE 16TH OR EARLY 17TH CENTURY

Closed11 June 2010

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A BRONZE MODEL OF A PACING HORSE
WORKSHOP OF BARTHELEMY PRIEUR (1536-1611), LATE 16TH OR EARLY 17TH CENTURY
On a later rectangular white-veined yellow marble base, the tail possibly later
6 in. (15.2 cm.) high, 7¼ in. (18.4 cm.) high with base

Art Market, New York.

Specialist note

The elegant simplicity, good color and, as Barry so eloquently described it, the liquid surface, of the present lot is reminiscent of the bronzes in the growing Prieur oeuvre (A. Radcliffe and N. Penny, op. cit., p. 226). The Hall horse is nearly identical to another, also attributed to Prieur, in the collection of the former Robert Smith, Washington, D.C. The only differences between the two are the more prominent folds to the neck of the Hall version and its more free-flowing mane.

Another model also attributed to Prieur, and again with slight variations in the cropping of the mane similar to the Washington version, is presently in a private French collection.