Horace Vernet

The Start of the Race of the Riderless Horses



Horace Vernet - The Start of the Race of the Riderless Horses



Horace Vernet
The Start of the Race of the Riderless Horses
c. 1820
46 x 54 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed (lower right): H. V.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Bequest of Catharine Lorillard Wolfe, 1887


Literature

Collection catalogues
introduction by Gary Tinterow, Masterpieces of European Painting, 1800-1920, in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; New Haven, 2007, nr. 24


Provenance

Catharine Lorillard Wolfe, New York, until died 1887

External links

RKD 223324
Metropolitan Museum of Art Accession number 87.15.47

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