Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00001835La Source
Provenance
Sold, the artist’s estate sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, December 19–23, 1887, lot 108. Oscar Bondy, Vienna, by 1939 [according to copy of inventory, reproduced in Lillie 2003, p. 224]; confiscated by the Nazis for Hitler’s projected museum at Linz, 1939 [see source cited above]; restituted to Oscar’s widow, Elizabeth Bondy, New York, 1946 [according to Lillie 2003, p. 244; see also restitution receipt, April 25, 1946, Ardelia Hall Records, RG 260, Box 286, copy in curatorial file]. Victoria and Leopold Blumka, New York, before 1964; given to the Art Institute, 1964.
Exhibition history
Art Institute of Chicago, "European Terracotta Sculpture from the Permanent Collection," 27 July – 13 October 1983 [no cat.].
Publications
Stanislas Lami, Dictionaire des sculpteurs de l’école française au dix-neuvième siècle 2, reprint (Nendeln, Liechtenstein, 1970), pp. 283–84. June Ellen Hargrove, The Life and Work of Albert Ernest Carrier-Belleuse (New York: Garland Publishing, 1977), pp. xiii, 188–89, no. 148. Sophie Lillie, Was einmal war: Hundbuch der enteigneten Kunstsammlung Wiens (Vienna: Czernin Verlag, 2003), p. 224.
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Albert Ernest Carrier-Belleuse (French, 1824–1887)
- Date
- 1864
- Medium
- Terracotta
- Dimensions
- 46.4 × 54.6 × 27.9 cm (18 1/4 × 21 1/2 × 11 in.)
- Type
- Sculpture
- Classification
- statuette
- Style
- nineteenth century
- Place
- France
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Credit line
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Leopold Blumka
- Accession no.
- 1964.318
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