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Hebe and the Eagle of Jupiter
Inscriptions
Signed: Rude (on base, front left); stamped: Thiebaut Freres, Fondeurs, Paris (in script, right side)
Provenance
Heim Gallery, London, by 1975; sold to the Art Institute, 1975.
Publications
Paris, Palais des Champs-Élysées, Explication des ouvrages de peinture, sculpture, gravure, lithographie et architecture des artistes vivants (1857), p. 397, no. 3095. Alexis Bertrand, Les Artistes célèbres: François Rude (Paris: Librairie de l’art, 1888), pp. 96, 99–100. Joseph Calmette, François Rude (Paris: H. Floury, 1920), pp. 152-57. Dijon, Musée des Beaux-Arts, François Rude, 1784-1855: Commémoration du Centenaire (1955), pp. 28–29, nos. 35, 37, pl. 16. Stanislas Lami, Dictionnaire des sculpteurs de l’école française au dix–neuvième siècle 4, reprint (Nendeln, Liechtenstein: Kraus, 1970), pp. 206, 215. Robert Kashey and Martin L. H. Reymert, Western European Bronzes of the Nineteenth Century: A Survey (New York: Shepherd Gallery Associates, 1973), no. 9. Jeremy Cooper, Nineteenth-Century Romantic Bronzes: French, English and American Bronzes, 1830-1915 (Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1975), pp. 16-19, 27. Art Institute of Chicago, “French Sculpture,” Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report 1974–75 (Chicago, 1976), p. 53.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- François Rude (French, 1784–1855)
- Date
- Modeled c. 1852, cast c. 1860–80
- Medium
- Bronze
- Dimensions
- 78.7 × 52.4 cm (31 × 20 5/8 in.)
- Type
- Sculpture
- Classification
- statuette
- Style
- nineteenth century
- Place
- France
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Credit line
- Purchased with funds provided by Mr. and Mrs. John H. Leslie
- Accession no.
- 1975.306
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Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
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