Sporting Life

Sporting Life

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Property from the collection of The Jockey Club (US) for the benefit of initiatives in support of the Thoroughbred industry

Edward Troye

Mary Hadley in a Loose Box

Lot Closed

October 25, 02:01 PM GMT

Estimate

30,000 - 50,000 USD

Lot Details

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Property from the collection of The Jockey Club (US) for the benefit of initiatives in support of the Thoroughbred industry

Edward Troye

American

1808 - 1874

Mary Hadley in a Loose Box


signed and dated E. Troye / 1872 (lower right); inscribed Presented by/ E. Troye/ in token of friendship/ to/ James A. Grimstad/ Esq. (reverse)

oil on canvas

canvas: 30 by 23 1/5 in.; 77 by 59 cm

framed: 38 1/10 by 32 1/2 in.; 97 by 82.5 cm

Commissioned by James A. Grinstead
Major Barak G. Thomas
Acquired by The Jockey Club, 1907

Alexander Mackay-Smith, The Race Horses of America, 1832-1872, Portraits and Other Paintings by Edward Troye, 1981, pp. 312, 343.

The Art Museum at the University of Kentucky, Hoofbeats and Heartbeats: The Horse in American Art, 2010, p. 2, illustrated, 91.

Speed Art Museum, Tales from the Turf: the Kentucky Horse, 1825-1950, 2019, cat. 52, p. 154.

Troye painted Mary Hadley, foaled in 1859 by O'Meara out of Parasina by imported Leviathan, bred by the Honorable Thomas Barry of Gallatin, Tennessee, at James Ginstead's Walnut Hill Stud in Lexington, Kentucky.

This head study in oil is a departure for Troye, who previously realized similar compositions only in charcoal. Her head, which occupies most of the shaped canvas, rests on the top of the lower half of her stall door. Her chestnut color is accentuated by a long white blaze, running from her forehead down her nose.