Overall: 16 x 15 1/4 x 8 1/2 inches (40.6 x 38.7 x 21.6 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed and dated below boy's right foot: "J BOEHM | 1865"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B2001.2.296
Classification:
Sculptures
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
horse (animal) | dog (animal) | genre subject | boy | girl
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Connections (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-05-26 - 2011-09-11)Taste & Beauty in Three Dimensions: Paul Mellon and British Sculpture (Yale Center for British Art, 2002-10-23 - 2004-02-15)The Paul Mellon Bequest : Treasures of a Lifetime (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-02-17 - 2001-04-29)
Publications:
Taste & beauty in three dimensions : Paul Mellon and British sculpture, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Conn., 2002, p. [4], no. 12, V 1426 (YCBA)Malcolm Warner, The Paul Mellon Bequest : treasures of a lifetime, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2001, p. 40, N5247 M385 P28 2001 (YCBA)
Gallery Label:
The Austrian-born Joseph Edgar Boehm settled in London in 1862 and soon established himself as Queen Victoria’s favorite sculptor. Boehm’s continental and more naturalistic style of sculpture was a decisive influence on his contemporaries, and he effectively introduced British audiences to the animalier sculpture common in France— particularly equestrian bronzes and genre subjects such as this young girl riding her pony. Gallery label for installation of YCBA collection, 2016