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Jacques-Laurent Agasse(Geneva 1767-1849 London)A bay stallion from Lord Heathfield's stud in a landscape
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Lisa Greaves
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Jacques-Laurent Agasse (Geneva 1767-1849 London)
signed with initials 'J.L.A.' (lower left)
oil on canvas
76.1 x 63.8cm (29 15/16 x 25 1/8in).
Footnotes
Provenance
Sale, Christie's, London, 16 June 1961, lot 95
With Ackermann, London, 1961
The Paul Mellon Collection
Their sale, Sotheby's, London, 18 November 1981, lot 117
Private Collection, UK
Exhibited
Virginia, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Painting in England 1700-1850; collection of Mr. & Mrs. Paul Mellon, 1963, cat. no. 352
Literature
Agasse's manuscript Record Book, either 'February 16 1805 P of a little stone bay horse, got by a gray Arabian, good race in 3/4s', or '5 March 1805 Copy of the small bay horse small s. he is out of L. Heathfield stud'
J. Egerton, British Sporting and Animal Painting, 1655-1867, 1978, pp. 182-3, cat. no. 187
Francis Augustus Eliott, 2nd Baron Heathfield, F.R.S (1750-1813) was a great friend of Agasse's chief patron, Lord Rivers and shared his interest in horse breeding. It is thought that Agasse worked for him as early as 1801 and is know to have painted four equestrian portraits of Lord Heathfield, one of which is in the Collection of His Majesty the King, UK (RCIN 400136).
The present work, which Egerton dates to circa 1805, can be compared to Agasse's A grey hunter in a wooded landscape, formerly in the collection of Eugene V. Thaw and offered Christie's, New York, 30 October 2018 and to Grey Horse in a Meadow, formerly in the Oskar Reinhart collection (see Jacques-Laurent Agasse, 1767-1849, Geneva, 1988, exh. cat., p. 90, cat. no. 25).
