Pacing Horse

Antico (1460 - 1528)

V&A (Victoria & Albert Museum)

1490-1520

This bronze statuette of a pacing horse derives from one of the four classical bronze horses on the façade of St Mark's in Venice. The pose of the original is combined with a considerable measure of naturalism in the body and a remarkably sensitive and expressive head. The bronze is probably North Italian rather than Florentine, though in view of the exceptional coherence and compactness of its forms the possibility of a Florentine origin cannot be wholly ruled out.

• Medium: bronze
• Dimensions: 24 x 18 cm
• Art Fund Grant: £1700 ( Total: £1,700)
• ArtFunded in: 1957
• Vendor: Frank Partridge

Provenance

Paul Fischer, Budapest

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