Details
Frederick William MacMonnies (1863-1937)
Pan of Rohallion
inscribed 'Frederick MacMonnies/copyright 1891 Paris 1890.' and stamped 'J A BOEUF & ROUARD/FONDEURS A PARIS/10 & 12/R. de L'ASILE POPINCOURT' (on the ball)--inscribed 'TO•PAN•OF•ROHALLION ANNO DOMINI•M•D•C•C•C•L•X•L•' (along the base)
bronze with dark greenish-brown patina
29½ in. (74.9 cm.) high

Provenance
Mrs. Virginia C. Williams, Princeton, New Jersey, by 1960.
By descent to the present owner.
Literature
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., Carved and Modeled: American Sculpture 1810-1940, exhibition catalogue, New York, 1982, pp. 64-65, another example illustrated.
J. Conner, J. Rosenkranz, Rediscoveries in American Sculpture: Studio Works 1893-1939, Austin, Texas, 1989, pp. 116, 126, 132n17, other examples referenced.
James Graham & Sons, The Figure in Sculpture: An Exhibition of Fine American and European, 19th and 20th Century Works in Bronze and Marble, exhibition catalogue, New York, 1989, pp. 46, 70, another example illustrated.
M. Smart, E.A. Gordon, A Flight with Fame: The Life and Art of Frederick MacMonnies: With a Catalogue Raisonné of the Artist's Works, Madison, Connecticut, 1996, pp. 85, 89-90, 92, 99, 106, 150, 156, 237, 288, other examples referenced.
E.A. Gordon, The Sculpture of Frederick William MacMonnies: A Critical Catalogue, Ph.D. dissertation, New York University, New York, 1998, p. 121.
Eaton Fine Art, Inc., From Neo-Classical and Beaux-Arts to Modernism: A Passage in American Sculpture, exhibition catalogue, West Palm Beach, Florida, 2000, pp. 20-21, another example illustrated.
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