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Inscriptions
Signed and inscribed right, bottom-middle, on base top, in cast: "Daniel C. French Sc. / 1912"; stamped verso, bottom-right: "Roman Bronze Works N.Y.".
Provenance
Philip D. Sang (1902–1975), Chicago, by early 1940s; by descent to Elsie O. Sang (Mrs. Philip D. Sang, 1906–1997), Chicago, 1975; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1984.
Publications
“Sculptor’s Pride in Art Institute,” Chicago Tribune, Feb. 6, 1985, Section 8, 1 (ill.). Judith A. Barter, et al., American Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times to World War I (Art Institute of Chicago, 1998), 329–31, cat. 174 (ill.). Eric Foner, “The Civil War and the Story of American Freedom,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 27, no. 1 (2001), 9 (ill.), https://www.jstor.org/stable/4102836. Sofia Ortega-Guerrero, “Americas in the Making,” in “In the Galleries,” ed. Elizabeth McGoey and Sara Picard, Panorama: Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art 12, no. 1 (Spring 2026), https://doi.org/10.24926/24716839.21042.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Daniel Chester French (American, 1850–1931) / Cast by Roman Bronze Works (American, founded 1897)
- Date
- Modeled 1912, cast after 1912
- Medium
- Bronze
- Dimensions
- 95.9 × 31.2 × 25.4 cm (37 3/4 × 12 1/4 × 10 in.)
- Type
- Sculpture
- Classification
- sculpture
- Style
- Realism
- Place
- United States
- Department
- Arts of the Americas
- Credit line
- Gift of Elsie O. Sang in memory of Philip D. Sang
- Accession no.
- 1984.1130
More by Daniel Chester French in museum collections
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00001933
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