LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Size Notes:

152.1 x 182.9 cm

Description:

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Literature:

Jacques-Laurent Agasse, Catalogue Autographe de son Oeuvre 1800-1849, Geneva, recorded under either the date 10 March 1804 or 22 June 1804. , Judy Egerton, British Sporting and Animal Paintings, 1655-1867, The Paul Mellon Collection, 1978, pp. 181-182, no. 186, plate 23. , J. Baskett, The Horse in Art, New Haven and London, 1980, p. 120, illustrated. , C. Sanger, 'Agasse in London', Jacques-Laurent Agasse 1767-1849, exhibition catalogue, London, 1988, p. 32.

Provenance:

Painted for the Hon. George Pitt (1751-1828), 2nd Baron Rivers, and by inheritance to his nephew, , William Augustus Pitt Lane-Fox (1796-1832), and by descent in the family to his great-grandson,, George Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers (1890-1966), the Manor House, Hinton St. Mary, Dorset, and by inheritance to his partner, , Stella Pitt-Rivers, ne Lonsdale, from whom acquired by the following,, with John Baskett, London, on behalf of,, Paul Mellon (1907-1999), United States, by 1969, by whom sold , Christie's, London, 17 November 1989, lot 8., with Arthur Ackerman & Sons, London, where acquired by the present owner in November 1990.