FEUCHÈRE, Jean-Jacques

Amazone domptant un cheval

Amazon Taming a Horse

c. 1840-1843

bronze

equestrian statue(tte)

Dimensions (HxWxD): 12 ³⁄₁₆ x 12 ³⁄₁₆ x 5 ¹⁵⁄₁₆ in.

signed on base: J. FEUCHERE

Acc. No.: 1979.41

Credit Line: The Thomas L. Fawick Memorial Collection

Photo credit: The Cleveland Museum of Art

© Artist : public domain

Cleveland, Ohio, The Cleveland Museum of Art

www.clevelandart.org

Provenance

• New York, Shepherd Gallery
• 1979, The Thomas L. Fawick Memorial Collection

Bibliography

• Museum's website (accessed May 22, 2017)
• 1980 Lee
  Sherman E. Lee, "The Year in Review for 1979", The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, Volume LXVII, Number 3, March 1980, p. 59, 71 ill. 31, 96 no. 31
• 1981 Hawley
  Henry H. Hawley, "Some Intimate Sculptures of Feuchère", Cleveland Museum of Art Bulletin, LXVIII (March 1981), p. 75-83, repr. p. 76

Exhibitions

• 1986 Cleveland
  Animals as Romantic Icons in French Art, Cleveland Museum of Art, 1986, April 8-July 27, 1986, no cat.

Related works

• Somewhat larger bronze in the Musée du Louvre, Paris, which is probably derived from the completed plaster shown in 1843.