Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00001932African Hunter
Inscriptions
Signed and dated: P.J. MENE 1877 (left front)
Provenance
Shepherd Gallery, New York, by 1984; sold to the Art Institute, 1984.
Exhibition history
Paris, Annual Salon, 1878, no. 4452.
Publications
Stanislas Lami, Dictionaire des sculpteurs de l’école française au dix-neuvième siècle 3, reprint (Nendeln, Liechtenstein: Kraus, 1970), p. 430. Ian Wardropper, “Collecting European sculpture at the Art Institute of Chicago,” Apollo 154, 475 (September 2001), pp. 10, 12 (ill.). Michel Poletti and Alain Richarme, Pierre-Jules Mêne: Catalogue raisonné (Paris: Univers dr Bronze Editions, 2007), pp. 36-37, no F 9 (Chasseur africain no. 2) (ill.).
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
- 1877
- Medium
- Wax
- Dimensions
- 51.8 × 36.2 × 19 cm (20 3/8 × 14 1/4 × 7 1/2 in.)
- Type
- Sculpture
- Classification
- statuette
- Style
- nineteenth century
- Place
- France
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Credit line
- Arma Wyler Fund
- Accession no.
- 1984.997
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