Lot Essay
Percheron (lot ) and Percherons (lot ) were conceived as part of a series of British champion animals that Haseltine worked on from 1921 to 1924. The artist travelled around Great Britain modeling the animals from life and later refined the models in his Paris studio. Haseltine's study of ancient art--Egyptian, Greek, Assyrian and Chinese--greatly influenced the figures in this series. Not only were the forms simplified and slightly stylized, but the artist experimented with different types of patinas and materials, as in the present examples in which black and white onyx are used for each horse's eyes.
Examples carved of Bardiglio marble, part of the commission of champion domestic animals of Great Britain ordered by Marshall Field for the Field Museum of Natural History, are now in the collection of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia.
The present one-third lifesize models were made for Mrs. Robert Emmet, later the Baroness Emmet of Amberley, who was Vice-Chairman of the House of Lords and on two occasions British Minister at the General Assembly of United Nations. Another set was given by Mrs. George Blumenthal to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York in 1926 (26.160.1 & 26.160.2). Reductions also exist in one-quarter life-size and small bronze statuettes of one-eighth life size.
Rhum was by Lagor and out of Mazurka, foaled 1917. Bred by M. Chopin, La Bigottière, Bellème, Mortagne, France, Rhum was the property of Mrs. Robert Emmet, the Greyling Stud, Moreton Morrell, Warwickshire, England. The stallion was First at Mortagne, 1919; First and Champion at the Show of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, 1921, 1922 and 1923; and First and Champion, Norwich Stallion Show, 1922 and 1923.
Examples carved of Bardiglio marble, part of the commission of champion domestic animals of Great Britain ordered by Marshall Field for the Field Museum of Natural History, are now in the collection of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia.
The present one-third lifesize models were made for Mrs. Robert Emmet, later the Baroness Emmet of Amberley, who was Vice-Chairman of the House of Lords and on two occasions British Minister at the General Assembly of United Nations. Another set was given by Mrs. George Blumenthal to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York in 1926 (26.160.1 & 26.160.2). Reductions also exist in one-quarter life-size and small bronze statuettes of one-eighth life size.
Rhum was by Lagor and out of Mazurka, foaled 1917. Bred by M. Chopin, La Bigottière, Bellème, Mortagne, France, Rhum was the property of Mrs. Robert Emmet, the Greyling Stud, Moreton Morrell, Warwickshire, England. The stallion was First at Mortagne, 1919; First and Champion at the Show of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, 1921, 1922 and 1923; and First and Champion, Norwich Stallion Show, 1922 and 1923.