Anna Vaughn Hyatt Huntington (1876-1973)
Jaguar Reaching (Panther)
inscribed 'A.V. HYATT' (on the base) and numbered '5' (on the base) and stamped, stamped with foundry mark and stamped with foundry number 'GORHAM CO. Q38' (on the base)
bronze with brown and verdigris patina
6 1/2 in. (16.5 cm.) high
Modeled in 1906; Cast in 1906.
Footnotes:
Provenance
Private collection, Maryland.
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2022.

Literature
Gorham Company, Bronze Division, Gorham Company, Bronze Division Papers: 3. Casting Records of Statuary and Small Bronzes Owned by Gorham, Q Numbers Assigned to Bronzes, 1905-1970, New York, 1906, p. 2, no. Q38, another example listed. (as Panther)
Gorham Company, Bronze Division, Gorham Company, Bronze Division Papers: 5. Records of Royalties Paid to Sculptors for Casting Their Works, New York, 1906, n.p., no. Q38, another example listed. (as Panther)
Gorham Company, Bronze Division, Gorham Company, Bronze Division Papers: 7. Photograph Files of Statuary and Small Bronzes, New York, 1906, n.p., no. Q38, another example illustrated. (as Panther)

There are 251 known versions of Anna Vaughn Hyatt Huntington's Jaguar Reaching (Panther) of this size, including the present work numbered 5, cast by Gorham Manufacturing Company, Bronze Division between 1906 and 1946. Other examples of this model are in the collections of The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, New York (1971.96), the New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, Connecticut (1993.36), and The Newark Museum of Art, Newark, New Jersey.

The bronze is in good, stable condition. There is surface dust visible to the interstices. There are several minor scratches and scuffs to the surface throughout.