Horse - Item #702

  8 Inches High x 2 Inches Wide x 4.75 Inches Deep (as pictured) PLEASE NOTE: This piece can either be hung or placed on a flat surface. Make a note with your preference when ordering, and your piece will be custom cast with or without a hook. This piece is a fragment from the relief known both as The Flight of Night and The Horses of Anahita (Item #232). American artist William Morris Hunt (1824-1879) was intrigued by Anahita, the Persian goddess of the moon and the night. Most prolific in painting, Hunt was also a sculptor and lithographer. He was brother to architect Richard Morris Hunt. The composition resembles a sketch he created circa 1847 and one of the two murals he painted in 1878 in the Assembly Chamber of the New York State Capitol in Albany (that are no longer visible due to the new ceiling constructed in 1888). Anahita, not depicted in the sculpture, drives the horses forward as day breaks while an attendant to the left aids her with the unruly horses. In exquisite relief