About This Artwork
Jean Léon Gérôme
French, 1824-1904
Eagle Expiring, Monument for Waterloomodeled c. 1900 (cast after 1902)
Gilt bronze
68.6 x 71.1 cm (27 x 28 in.)
Siot-Decauville Fondeur Paris on back of base.
?28K on back of base.
George F. Harding Collection, 1990.580
Medieval to Modern European Painting and Sculpture
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Publication History
Musée de Vesoul, Gérôme: Jean-Léon Gérôme, 18224-1904, peintre, sculpteur et graveur: ses oeuvres conserves dans les collections françaises publiques et privées, exh. cat. (La Ville de Vesoul, 1981), no. 198, p. 155.
Gerald M. Ackerman, The Life and Work of Jean-Léon Gérôme, with a Catalogue Raisonné (Sotheby’s, 1986), p. 328, cat. S.58.
Gerald M. Ackerman, Jean-Léon Gérôme: Monographie revisée, Catalogue raisonné mis à jour (Paris: ACR Edition Internationale, 2000), no.S58, p. 400.
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, 1990.