About This Artwork
Joseph-Alexandre Falguière (Attributed to)
French, 1831-1900
Bust of a Young Man1870/75
Terracotta
50.5 x 23.2 cm (19 7/8 x 9 1/8 in.)
Anonymous gift in memory of Chester D. Tripp, 1974.442
Medieval to Modern European Painting and Sculpture
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Publication History
Yvanhoé Rambosson, “Quelques oeuvres peu connues de Alexandre Falguière,” Les Arts 1 (1902).
Stanislas Lami, Dictionnaire des sculpteurs de l'école francaise, reprint (Nendeln, Liechtenstein: Kraus, 1970), pp. 324-35.
For comparison, see:
Jules Claretiè, Peintres & Sculpteurs Contemporains (Paris: Librairie Bibliophiles, 1884).
Paul Arène, et. al., Alexandre Falguiere: Sculpteur et Peintre (Paris: Société anonyme La Plume, 1898).
Gazette des Beaux-Arts, t. 23 (1900), p. 399.
Ownership History
John Maxon, Chicago, before 1974; given to the Art Institute, 1974.