About This Artwork

Albert Ernest Carrier-Belleuse
French, 1824-1887

Bust of Murillo, c. 1872

Terracotta
55.9 x 33 cm (22 x 13 in.)
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Gardner Stern, 1962.962

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, "The Romantics to Rodin: French Nineteenth-Century Sculpture from American Collections," 28 February – 25 May 1980, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 25 June – 21 September 1980, Detroit Institute of Arts, 27 October 1980 – 4 January 1981, and the Indianapolis Museum of Art, 22 February – 29 April 1981, no. 52.

Publication History

Art Institute of Chicago, “Report of the Director of Fine Arts,” Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report: 1962–63 (Chicago, 1964), p. 13.

Stanislas Lami, Dictionaire des sculpteurs de l’école française au dix-neuvième siècle 2, reprint (Nendeln, Liechtenstein, 1970), p. 285.

June Ellen Hargrove, The Life and Work of Albert Ernest Carrier-Belleuse (New York: Garland Publishing, 1977), pp. xv, 219–21, fig. 187.

Christie’s, Important Nineteenth-Century Furniture, Sculpture, Works of Art and Ceramics (October 31, 2000), lot 509.

Ownership History

Mr. and Mrs. Gardner Stern, Chicago, by 1939 [according to Gardner Stern, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Stern, telephone conversation with Brandon Ruud, June 22, 2004, notes in curatorial file]; given to the Art Institute, 1962.