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Joan of Arc
by Henri Chapu
Inscriptions
Inscribed: H. Chapu; F. Barbedienne, Foundeur, Paris
Provenance
Arthur Rubloff (d. 1986), Chicago, by 1986; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1988; accessioned by the Art Institute, 1996.
Publications
Stanislas Lami, Dictionaire des sculpteurs de l’école française au dix-neuvième siècle, reprint (Nendeln, Liechtenstein: Kraus, 1970), p. 335. Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc., Animalier and Other Nineteenth-Century Bronzes From the Collection of the Late Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge (February 20, 1976), lot 26. New York, Shepherd Gallery, Nineteenth-Century French and Western European Sculpture in Bronze and Other Media, edited by Elisabeth Kashey and Robert Kashey (New York: Shepherd Gallery, 1985), pp. 144-46, fig. 61. For comparison, see: O. Fidière, Chapu: Sa vie et son oeuvre (Paris, 1894), p. 68 (ill.). Sotheby’s, Nineteenth-Century Ceramics and Silver, Animalier Bronzes, Continental Bronzes and Sculpture, Clocks and Furniture (November 6, 1986), lot 256w.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Henri Chapu (French, 1833–1891) / Cast by Ferdinand Barbedienne (French, 1810–1892)
- Date
- 1875–1900
- Medium
- Bronze
- Dimensions
- H.: 44.8 cm (17 5/8 in.)
- Type
- Sculpture
- Classification
- statuette
- Style
- nineteenth century
- Place
- France
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Credit line
- Bequest of Arthur Rubloff
- Accession no.
- 1996.603
More by Henri Chapu 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-00001974
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