About This Artwork
Henri Chapu
French, 1833-1891
Cast by: Ferdinand Barbedienne
French, 1810-1892
Joan of Arc1875/1900
Bronze
H. 44.8 cm (17 5/8 in.)
H. Chapu and F. Barbedienne, Foundeur, Paris
Bequest of Arthur Rubloff, 1996.603
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. 335.
Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc., Animalier and Other Nineteenth-Century Bronzes From the Collection of the Late Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge (February 20, 1976), lot 26.
New York, Shepherd Gallery, Nineteenth-Century French and Western European Sculpture in Bronze and Other Media, edited by Elisabeth Kashey and Robert Kashey (New York: Shepherd Gallery, 1985), pp. 144-46, fig. 61.
For comparison, see:
O. Fidière, Chapu: Sa vie et son oeuvre (Paris, 1894), p. 68 (ill.).
Sotheby’s, Nineteenth-Century Ceramics and Silver, Animalier Bronzes, Continental Bronzes and Sculpture, Clocks and Furniture (November 6, 1986), lot 256w.
Ownership History
Arthur Rubloff (d. 1986), Chicago, by 1986; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1988; accessioned by the Art Institute, 1996.