FREDERICK WILLIAM MACMONNIES (1863-1937) Nathan Hale 71.8 x 15.0 x 20.0 cm (28 1/4 x 5 3/4 x 7 3...

FREDERICK WILLIAM MACMONNIES (1863-1937) Nathan Hale signed 'F. MacMonnies' (on the side of the base); stamped 'JABOEUF & ROUARD/FONDEURS/A/PARIS/10 & 12/R. DE L'ASILE POPINCOURT' (on the top of the base) bronze with a brown patina 71.8 x 15.0 x 20.0 cm (28 1/4 x 5 3/4 x 7 3/4 in) Footnotes: Provenance Nathan Liverant and Son Antiques, Colchester, Connecticut. The collection of Eric van Rooy (acquired from the previous, 2003). Literature Tom Armstrong, et al., 200 Years of American Sculpture (New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1976), p. 53. Janis Conner and Joel Rosenkranz, Rediscoveries in American Sculpture: Studio Works, 1893-1939 (Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 1989), pp. 126, 128, 129 (another example illustrated). Wayne Craven, Sculpture in America (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1968), pp. 422, 456 (another example illustrated). Mary Smart and E. Adina Gordon, A Flight with Fame: The Life and Art of Frederick MacMonnies (1863-1937) (Madison, Connecticut: Sound View Press, 1996), pp. 64, 85-89, 91, 99, 102-5, 116, 136-37, 157, 188, 201, 210, 256, 270, (other examples illustrated). Lorado Taft, The History of American Sculpture (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1903), pp. 336, 339, pl. X (another example illustrated). Thayer Tolles, ed., American Sculpture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, vol. I (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1999), pp. 434-36 (another example illustrated). N.B. Frederick MacMonnies' large-scale sculpture of American patriot Nathan Hale was commissioned by the Empire State Society of the Sons of the American Revolution for Manhattan's City Hall Park, where it was placed in 1893. The present work is one of several reduced size models that MacMonnies produced. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing