HERBERT HASELTINE (1877-1962)

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HERBERT HASELTINE (1877-1962)

'Percherons', A Bronze Group of the Mare Messaline and Her Foal

inscribed PERCHERONS, HASELTINE MCMXXV, MESSALINE ^. FOALED MCMXII ^. SIRE DOUVREUR^.EX^.COUVREUR ^. DAM PAQUERETTE ^. BRED IN FRANCE AND THE PROPERTY OF MRS^. ROBERT EMMETT ^. THE GREYLING STUD ^. MORETON MORRELL ^. WARWICKSHIRE, and FIRST LA MORTAGNE SHOW MCMXVII MCMXVIII MCMXIX ^. FIRST SHOW OF THE ROYAL COUNTIES AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY MCMXXX ^. FIRST AND GRAND PRIZE AT THE SHOW OF THE NORFOLK AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY MCMXX ^. FIRST AT THE SHOW OF THE ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF ENGLAND MCMXX ^. FIRST MORETON^.IN^. THE^.MARSH MCMXX ^. FIRST AND CHAMPION AT THE SHOW OF THE ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF ENGLAND MCMXXI MCMXXII, with paper labels on the underside, one inscribed 939 XV. Esposizione internazionale d'Arte della città di Venezia - 1926 and the other inscribed VERIFICATO DOCANA ITALIANA JB5358
21¾in. (55.3cm.) high, rich greenish brown patina with black and white onyx inset eyes, on original oak plinth

Provenance

Evelyn, Baroness of Amberley, Amberley Castle, Sussex, England
By descent through the family

Literature

Field Museum of Natural History, Sculptures by Herbert Haseltine of Champion Domestic Animals of Great Britain, Zoology leaflet 13, Chicago, 1934, cat. no. 5 for the Bardaglio marble example
American Sculptor's Series, Herbert Haseltine, 1948, vol. 7, p. 39 for the marble example
A.T.E. Gardner, American Sculpture: A Catalogue of the Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Greenwich, CT, 1965, p. 134 for another bronze example
Whitney Museum of American Art, 200 Years of American Sculpture, New York, 1976, pp. 140-141, 340, cat. no. 92, fig. 199, for the Metropolitan Museum of Art's example
J. Conner & J. Rosenkranz, Rediscoveries in American Sculpture: Studio Works 1893-1939, Austin, 1989, p. 48
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, William Stanley Haseltine 1835-1900 Herbert Haseltine 1877-1962, New York, 1992, p. 24, cat. no. 41 for an example of a bronze reduction

Exhibited

Venice, Esposizione internazionale d'Arte della città di Venezia, 1926
London, Knoedler's Gallery, Herbert Haseltine: Exhibition of Sculpture, July 10-August 9, 1930, cat. no. 4 (not illustrated). This exhibition travelled to M. Knoedler & Company, New York, January 15-February 3, 1934.

Lot Essay

Please see the note on the preceeding lot.

Messaline was by Douvreur-ex-Couvreur and out of Paquerette, foaled in 1912. Bred in France, the mare and her foal were the property of Mrs. Robert Emmet, The Greyling Stud, Moreton Morrell, Warwickshire, England. The mare was First at Mortagne Show, 1917, 1918, 1919, First at the Show of the Royal Counties Agricultural Society, 1920; First and Group Prize at the Show of the Norfolk Agricultural Society, 1920; First at Moreton-in-the-Marsh, 1920; and First and Champion at the Show of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, 1921, 1922.