Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00001883Amazon: Mme. L. Riding Monte Cristo, Pure-Bred English Horse
Inscriptions
Signed: P.J. Mene (on base in original model); stamped or cast: 201 or 211 (proper right vertical side of base)
Provenance
Arthur Rubloff (d. 1986), Chicago, by 1986; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1988.
Publications
Stanislas Lami, Dictionaire des sculpteurs de l’ecole francaise (Liechtenstein, 1970), pp. 427–30. Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc., Collection of Isidore and Rosa Bonheur, Pierre-Jules Mêne and Other Animalier Bronzes: The Property of the Late Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge (November 29 – December 3, 1975), lot 105.
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Pierre Jules Mêne (French, 1810–1879)
- Date
- 1865
- Medium
- Bronze
- Dimensions
- 44.5 × 40.6 × 11.4 cm (33 1/2 × 4 1/2 × in.)
- Type
- Sculpture
- Classification
- statuette
- Style
- nineteenth century
- Place
- France
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Credit line
- Bequest of Arthur Rubloff
- Accession no.
- 1988.36.5
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