Portrait of the Racehorse, 'Duroc' (Primary Title)

Alvan Fisher, American, 1792 - 1863 (Artist)

1822
American
oil on canvas
Unframed: 23 1/2 × 28 1/2 in. (59.69 × 72.39 cm)
Framed: 30 5/8 × 35 3/4 in. (77.79 × 90.81 cm)
85.641
Not on view
Paul Mellon Collection
"Tales from the Turf: The Kentucky Horse 1825-1950", Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY, November 15, 2019 - March 1, 2020

National Museum of Racing, Inc., Saratoga Springs, NY, Summer 1966.
Cormack, Malcolm. Country Pursuits: British, American, and French Sporting Art from the Mellon Collections in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Richmond: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 2007. (cat. no. 75, pp. 306-07)

Stephanie Przyblek, "Alvan Fisher and the Beginning of Thoroughbred Portraiture in America," The National Sporting Library Newsletter, No. 38, Fall 1993, pp. 1-2, ill.

John Fairley, The Art of the Horse (New York: Abbeville Press, 1995) pp. 83-84, ill. no. 53.
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