Walking Lion (Racing Trophy)

1865

67.9 cm 49.5 cm 22.2 cm

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This trophy was awarded to the famous racehorse, the filly, Fille de l'Air ("Daughter of the Wind") as winner of the first running of the two mile La Coupe at Longchamp, near Paris, in 1865. Fille de l'Air was one of several great horses owned by Count Frédéric de Lagrange. Hi...

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Count Frédéric de Lagrange, 1865 (prize awarded for the first running of La Coupe, Longchamp); J. Montaignac, 1884, by purchase (Legrange Sale, February, Hotel Drouot, 12,000 francs); William T. Walters, Baltimore, January 30, 1885, by purchase [George A. Lucas as agent, 10,500 francs]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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