Inscribed in red paint, lower left center: "MEMNON"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.753
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
field | animal art | horses (animals) | clouds | racecourse | equestrian | spectators | pattern | man | jockey | woman | riding boots | riding habit | breeches | hat | top hat | fence | crowds | sporting art
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
British Sporting Heroes (National Portrait Gallery, 1998-09-30 - 1999-01-24)Life in England 1750 - 1850 (Paul Mellon Arts Center, 1990-03-27 - 1990-05-21)The Director's Choice - Sports Art from America's Great Art Museums (The National Art Museum of Sport, 1990-01-15 - 1992-03-31)Summer Exhibition (National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame, 1988-07-14 - 1988-10-15)Paintings on Loan to The Trustees' Room Belmont Park from the English Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon (Belmont Park, 1968 - 1968)Painting in England 1700-1850 - From The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon (Yale University Art Gallery, 1965-04-15 - 1965-06-20)
Publications:
Arthur Ackermann & Son Ltd., An exhibition of XVIIIth and XIXth century oil paintings of celebrated racehorses : 9th May to 1st June, 1962, presented by the British Racehorse at the galleries of Arthur Ackermann & Son, Ltd. , London, 1962, p. 19, no. 11, pl. 11, DealerCat Arthur Ackermann (YCBA)Robert Colls, This sporting life : sport and liberty in England, 1760-1960, Oxford University Press, Oxford, U.K., 2020, pp. 57, 370, GV706.35 .C65 2020 (LC) YCBAMalcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 114-115, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA)Judy Egerton, British Sporting and Animal Paintings 1655-1867 : A Catalogue : The Paul Mellon Collection, , Tate Publishing, London, 1978, pp. 293-94, no. 316, pl. 38, ND1383 G7 B75 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Frank Partridge & Sons, Ltd., Partridge sale catalogue : Catalogue of fine English sporting pictures : 1959, 1959, p. 7, DealerCat Frank Partridge Inc (YCBA)Painting in England 1700-1850 from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, The Royal Academy of Arts Winter Exhibition 1964-65., , Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK, 1964, p. 79 (v.1), no. 277, pl. 28, N5220.M45 R69 1964 (YCBA)Yale University Art Gallery, Painting in England, 1700-1850, from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon : [exhibition at] Yale University Art Gallery, April 15-June 20, 1965, , vol. 1, W. Clowes and sons, New Haven, 1965, p. 29 (v.1), no. 104, pl. 28, ND466 Y35 (YCBA)