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The Horses of Anahita Wall Sculpture
The Horses of Anahita Wall Sculpture
By William Morris Hunt (1824-1879) in the Art Institute of Chicago
The spectacular horses in this relief appeared in the culminating work of Hunt’s career--a mural commissioned for the capitol of New York, then in Albany, in 1878 (Anahita Flight of Night). A servant of Anahita, Persian goddess of moon and night, leads the vaulting horses from the nearing dawn. Our 19" replica was cast directly from the original exclusively for Toscano. Cast in fiberglass reinforced resin for home and garden use.
Original: 28"Wx12"Dx19"H. 16 lbs.
Large-scale: 38½"Wx13"Dx26½"H. 23 lbs. 16 lbs.
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OS6321
The Horses of Anahita Wall Sculpture - Original
$298.00
Oversized: $7.00 + standard shipping and handling charges apply
OS68879
The Horses of Anahita Wall Sculpture - Large-scale
$398.00
This item will be custom made for you. Materials required for the creation of your item are in stock. Please allow 3-4 weeks for delivery!
Freight: $59.00 + standard shipping and handling charges apply
Large-scale has cable for hanging
William Morris Hunt (1824-1879 )
Born in Brattleboro, Vermont, William Morris Hunt spent much of his youth in New Haven, Connecticut. Ill health ended a three-year enrollment at Harvard College, where he had studied sculpture with Henry Kirke Brown (1814-1886). In 1843 he left for Europe, eventually enrolling at the Dusseldorf Academy in Germany. Tiring of its rigid approach to art, Hunt soon departed for France, where he entered the atelier of Thomas Couture (1815-1879). The French instructor was less strict than his German counterparts but still highly structured in his teaching methods. The disenchanted Hunt eventually found his way into the circle of the French Barbizon landscape painters, becoming especially close to Jean Francoise Millet (1814-1875).
Hunt returned to the United States in 1855, settling first in Newport, Rhode Island, and later in Boston, where he became important as both a painter and teacher. He was a powerful artistic force, bringing Boston into contact with European art, particularly that of the Barbizon School. By 1859 Hunt had become a very successful portrait painter. In the years just after the Civil War his commissions reached a peak. His strong aliation with Boston probably led to his being selected to paint this posthumous military portrait of the Boston-born William Madigan. The work was commissioned by Massachusetts Governor John A. Andrew during the Civil War and is one of several portraits done by Hunt of Civil War heroes.
William Madigan served in the Ninth Regiment of the Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, also known as the "Irish North." He was killed on June 27, 1862, at the age of thirty-six in the Battle of Chickahominy in Gaines Mill, Virginia. A contemporary account of his regiment recorded: -
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