About This Artwork

Paul Albert Bartholomé
French, 1848-1928

Lamenting Group, c. 1900

Bronze
35 1/2 x 36 x 11 1/2 in. (91 x 91.5 x 29 cm)
Signature: "A. Bartholome"
George F. Harding Collection, 1984.33

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Publication History

Claude Philips, “Sculpture of the Year,” Magazine of Art (1895).

M. Demaison, “M. Bartholomé et le monument aux morts,” Revue de l’art ancien et moderne VI (1899), pp. 265–68.

Thérèse Burollet, “Bartholomé et Degas,” Information d’histoire de l’art 10 (1967), pp. 119–26.

Thérèse Burollet, “A propos du monument aux morts d’Albert Bartholomé une nouvelle acquisition du Musée de Brest,” Revue du Louvre 24, 2 (1974), pp. 109–16.

Ownership History

George F. Harding, Jr. (d. 1939), Chicago, by 1939; bequeathed to the George F. Harding Museum, Chicago, 1939; transferred to the Art Institute, 1982; accessioned by the Art Institute, 1984.