Object details
Accession number
S33w2
Primary Creator
William Morris Hunt
(Brattleboro, Vermont, 1824 - 1879, Appledore Island, Maine)
Full title
The Horses of Anahita, or The Flight of Night
Creation Date
after 1879
Provenance
Entered Isabella Stewart Gardner's collection by 1882.
Marks
Inscribed (rectangular label, center): COPYRIGHT MAR. 4 1880. / By ESTE WM. M. HUNT / L.D. HUNT. ADM[DC?]
Inscribed (oval label, left): P. GARIBOLDI / BOSTON
Dimensions
48.9 x 70.8 x 28.6 cm (19 1/4 x 27 7/8 x 11 1/4 in.)
Display Media
Plaster
Web Commentary
Isabella Stewart Gardner kept meticulous records of many of her acquisitions. In keeping with this legacy, object information is continually being reviewed, updated, and enriched in order to give greater access to the collection.
Permanent Gallery Location
Vatichino
Bibliography
Albert TenEyck Gardner. American Sculpture: A Catalogue of the Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, 1965), pp. 22-23. (as a plaster replica of the cast in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, museum no. 80.12)
Cornelius C. Vermeule III et al. Sculpture in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1977), p. 159, no. 201. (as after 1879)
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