Pacing Horse

ca. between 1470 and 1530

School of Donatello , Artist Italian , Artist

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European: Medieval and Renaissance, Level 2, West Wing

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About the Artwork

Title Pacing Horse

Artwork Date ca. between 1470 and 1530

Makers School of Donatello (Artist) Italian, ca. 1386 - 1466 (Artist) Italian

Medium Gessoed poplar with black paint and traces of gilding, with hand forged iron-rod and supports between base and stomach of horse

Dimensions Overall: 27 3/4 × 33 × 15 1/4 inches (70.5 × 83.8 × 38.7 cm)

Classification Sculpture

Department European Sculpture and Dec Arts

Credit Gift of Mr. Edsel B. Ford

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 37.176

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Pazzi family of Florence, Orfini-Pazzi Palace, via della Croce Bianca (Foligno, Italy);
(Ugo Jandolo) (Rome, Italy);
purchased by Edsel B. Ford [1893–1943] (Grosse Pointe, Michigan, USA);
1937-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

"Exhibition of Italian Sculpture." Bulletin of the DIA 17, no. 4 (January 1938): pp. 22-23 (ill.).

Valentiner, W.R. Italian Gothic and Early Renaissance Sculptures. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, 1938, no. 30 (ill.) [unpaginated].

Valentiner, W.R. "A Statuette in Wood by Jacopo della Quercia." Bulletin of the DIA 20, no. 2 (November 1940): pp. 14-15.

Greenleaf, William. From These Beginnings: The Early Philanthropies of Henry and Edsel Ford, 1911–1936. Detroit, 1964, p. 163.

Darr, A.P. A Valentiner Legacy: Italian Sculpture in Detroit, Apollo 124 (December 1986): pp. 480, 484, no. 18 (fig. 7).

Avery, C. Giambologna: The Complete Sculpture. Oxford and Mt. Kisco, New York, 1987, pp. 158, 251, appendix I, doc. III.

Metelli, G. "Un modello per statua equestre del Detroit Institute of Arts." Bollettino storico della citta di Foligno XIX (1995): pp. 577-579.

Darr, A.P., P. Barnet, A. Boström, C. Avery, et al. Catalogue of Italian Sculpture in the Detroit Institute of Arts, 2 vols. London, 2002, I, cat. 64.

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Italian; school of Donatello, Pacing Horse, ca. between 1470 and 1530, gessoed poplar with black paint and traces of gilding, with hand forged iron-rod and supports between base and stomach of horse. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mr. Edsel B. Ford, 37.176.