Collection Pacing Horse

Pacing Horse

Donatello, Artist Italian, Artist
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European: Medieval and Renaissance, Level 2, West Wing

Pacing Horse
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Pacing Horse

ca. between 1470 and 1530

Donatello (Artist) Italian, ca. 1386 - 1466 (Artist) Italian

Gessoed poplar with black paint and traces of gilding, with hand forged iron-rod and supports between base and stomach of horse

Overall: 27 3/4 × 33 × 15 1/4 inches (70.5 × 83.8 × 38.7 cm)

Sculpture

European Sculpture and Dec Arts

Gift of Mr. Edsel B. Ford

37.176

This work is in the public domain.

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Provenance

Pazzi family of Florence, Orfini-Pazzi Palace, via della Croce Bianca (Foligno, Italy)

(Ugo Jandolo) (Rome, Italy)

purchased by Edsel B. Ford [1893–1943] (Grosse Pointe, Michigan, USA)

1937-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

"Exhibition of Italian Sculpture." Bulletin of the DIA 17, no. 4 (January 1938): pp. 22-23 (ill.).

Valentiner, W.R. Italian Gothic and Early Renaissance Sculptures. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, 1938, no. 30 (ill.) [unpaginated].

Valentiner, W.R. "A Statuette in Wood by Jacopo della Quercia." Bulletin of the DIA 20, no. 2 (November 1940): pp. 14-15.

Greenleaf, William. From These Beginnings: The Early Philanthropies of Henry and Edsel Ford, 1911–1936. Detroit, 1964, p. 163.

Darr, A.P. A Valentiner Legacy: Italian Sculpture in Detroit, Apollo 124 (December 1986): pp. 480, 484, no. 18 (fig. 7).

Avery, C. Giambologna: The Complete Sculpture. Oxford and Mt. Kisco, New York, 1987, pp. 158, 251, appendix I, doc. III.

Metelli, G. "Un modello per statua equestre del Detroit Institute of Arts." Bollettino storico della citta di Foligno XIX (1995): pp. 577-579.

Darr, A.P., P. Barnet, A. Boström, C. Avery, et al. Catalogue of Italian Sculpture in the Detroit Institute of Arts, 2 vols. London, 2002, I, cat. 64.

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Italian; school of Donatello, Pacing Horse, ca. between 1470 and 1530, gessoed poplar with black paint and traces of gilding, with hand forged iron-rod and supports between base and stomach of horse. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mr. Edsel B. Ford, 37.176.

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