2012, 100 Years Of Equestrian Sculpture

The Sladmore Gallery has gathered together the best of equestrian sculpture spanning a century.

On show, will be Antoine-Louis Barye’s Turkish Horse, one of the quintessential statements of Romanticism – a definitive image of the horse in Western art. It is one of Barye’s great masterpieces. It has its origins in the horses of classical sculpture such as the Parthenon Frieze and in great Italian Renaissance equestrian works by sculptors such as Cellini and Verrocchio. It resonates profoundly with other great nineteenth-century depictions of the horse, such as in paintings by Delacroix, Stubbs and Gericault.