Polychrome Molded Copper-over-Wood Trotting Horse

Description:

Polychrome Molded Copper-over-Wood Trotting Horse, attributed to Louis Jobin (active 1870-90),Quebec City area, with twilled mane and tail, worn red paint and black hooves, with stand (losses),ht. 14, wd. 3 1/2, lg. 19 3/4 in. N.B. Jobin, assisted by Edward Marcotte, produced religious sculpture, and is well known for a life-size sculpture of St. George. He is also recorded as having made weathervanes and figureheads, and having worked them in the same manner as he did this horse. This figure was found in St. Augustine, Quebec. Literature: A cigar store Indian c. 1885, by Jobin is illustrated in AN AMERICAN SAMPLER: FOLK ART FROM THE SHELBOURNE MUSEUM, (Washington, 1987),fig. 53. A similar horse is illustrated in Marian and Charles Klamkin, WOOD CARVINGS NORTH AMERICAN SCULPTURES, (New York, 1974),p. 49.
Estimate $20,000-30,000

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