About This Artwork

Frederick W. Macmonnies
American, 1863-1937
Cast by Jaboeuf et Rouard
French, 19th century

Bacchante with Infant Faun, modeled in 1894, cast after 1894

Bronze
h. 86.3 cm (34 in.)
Signed on base: "F. MacMonnies, 1894"

Foundry (stamped): "Jaboeuf & Rouard / FONDEURS/A/PARIS/10 & 12/R DE L'ASILE POPINCOURT"
Restricted gift of Brooks and Hope B. McCormick Foundation, 1984.571

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Publication History

Maine Antique Digest (Oct. 1985), p. 11b (ill.).
Art Institute of Chicago, Brushstrokes (Fall 1988), ill.

Marvin D. Schwartz, “The Art Institute’s New Wing,” Antiques and The Arts Weekly (Nov. 4, 1988), pp. 1, 60–62 (ill.).

Judith A. Barter et al, American Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times to World War I (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1998), pp. 278-280, no. 139.

Ownership History

Eric Silver, Forest Hills, New York, by 1984; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1984.