AT-00001956
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La Pensée
by Henri Chapu
Provenance
Edward A. and Inge Maser, Chicago, before 1991; given to the Art Institute, 1991.
Publications
Stanislas Lami, Dictionaire des sculpteurs de l’école française au dix-neuvième siècle, reprint (Nendeln, Liechtenstein: Kraus, 1970), p. 336. Anne Pingeot, “Flaubert et le Balzac de Chapu," La revue du Louvre et des Musées de France 29 (1979), pp. 35-43. For comparison, see: O. Fidière, Chapu: Sa vie et son oeuvre (Paris, 1894), pp. 154 (ill.), 251.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Henri Chapu (French, 1833 1891) / Cast by Thiebaut Freres Fumiere et Cie. (French, 1844–1926)
- Date
- c. 1900
- Medium
- Bronze
- Dimensions
- 32.3 × 21.1 cm (13 9/16 × 8 5/16 in.)
- Type
- Sculpture
- Classification
- relief
- Style
- 20th Century
- Place
- France
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Credit line
- Gift from the Edward A. and Inge Maser Collection
- Accession no.
- 1991.307
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