About This Artwork

Aimé-Jules Dalou
French, 1838–1902

Bacchus Consoling Ariadne, modeled c. 1892 (cast 1903/07)

Bronze
h. 17.8 cm (7 in.)
Signed: "Dalou"
Foundry stamp: "cire perdu Hebrard"
Restricted gift of Mrs. Arma Wyler, 1983.26

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Williamstown, MA, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, "The Subject in Late 19th Century Sculpture: The Work of Jules Dalou," 30 May - 7 September 1998.

Publication History

Henriette Caillaux, Aimé-Jules Dalou, 1838-1902 (Paris, 1935), p. 141.

Mallett, Ltd., Sculptures by Jules Dalou (1964), p. 19, no. 40.

Mallett, Ltd., and Galerie Heim, Jules Dalou (1965), p. 18, no. 28.

Paris, Ader Picard Tajan, Importants tableaux modernes et contemporains (25 June 1987), p. 40, no. 54.

Michael Forrest, Art Bronzes (West Chester, PA, 1988), p. 129, no. 2.293.

Ian Wardropper, “Collecting European Sculpture at the Art Institute of Chicago,” Apollo 154, 475 (September 2001), p. 11.

Ownership History

Michael Hall Fine Arts, New York, by 1982 [according to invoices and copies of shipping receipts in curatorial file]; sold to the Art Institute, 1983.