Provenance
D. Sole & Son, New York.
Private collection, acquired from the above, 1992.
Sotheby's, New York, 17 September 2019, lot 59, sold by the above.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.
Literature
D.L. Stover, American Sculpture: The Collection of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, exhibition catalogue, San Francisco, California, 1982, pp. 33, another example illustrated on the cover.
M. Smart, E.A. Gordon, A Flight with Fame: The Life and Art of Frederick MacMonnies, with a Catalogue Raisonné of Sculpture and a Checklist of Paintings, Madison, Connecticut, 1996, pp. 287-88, no. 20, another example illustrated.
E.A. Gordon, The Sculpture of Frederick William MacMonnies: A Critical Catalogue, PhD. diss., New York University, 1998, pp. 105-113.
T. Tolles, American Sculpture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Vol. 1, A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born before 1865, New York, 1999, pp. 428-31, another example illustrated.
D. Dearinger, Paintings and Sculpture in the Collection of the National Academy of Design, Vol. I, 1826-1925, New York, 2004, p. 373, another example illustrated.