The Horse

Raymond Duchamp-Villon · 1914 (cast c. 1930-31)

This one's called The Horse — a sculpture by the French artist Raymond Duchamp-Villon, nineteen fourteen (cast around nineteen thirty to nineteen thirty-one). Cast in bronze, almost always by the lost wax method, in which the model is destroyed to release the metal.

Medium Bronze · Dimensions 40 x 39 1/2 x 22 3/8" (101.6 x 100.1 x 56.7 cm) · Credit Van Gogh Purchase Fund

Hanging beside it in Gallery 505: Nickel Construction, In Advance of the Broken Arm

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: Tiari, Spoon Woman, Development of a Bottle in Space, The Back (II), The Devil with Claws, The Back (III)