About This Artwork
Henri Chapu
French, 1833-1891
Cast by: Thiebaut Fres. Fumiere et Cie
French
La Penséec. 1900
Bronze
13 9/16 x 8 5/16 in. (32.3 x 21.1 cm)
Gift from the Edward A. and Inge Maser Collection, 1991.307
Medieval to Modern European Painting and Sculpture
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Publication History
Stanislas Lami, Dictionaire des sculpteurs de l’école française au dix-neuvième siècle, reprint (Nendeln, Liechtenstein: Kraus, 1970), p. 336.
Anne Pingeot, “Flaubert et le Balzac de Chapu," La revue du Louvre et des Musées de France 29 (1979), pp. 35-43.
For comparison, see:
O. Fidière, Chapu: Sa vie et son oeuvre (Paris, 1894), pp. 154 (ill.), 251.
Ownership History
Edward A. and Inge Maser, Chicago, before 1991; given to the Art Institute, 1991.