About This Artwork

Isidore Bonheur
French, 1827-1901
Cast by: Peyrol Foundry
France

Charging Bull, c. 1865

Bronze
34.3 x 59.1 x 19.7 cm (13 15/16 x 23 3/8 x 7 3/4 in.)
incised signature at right side of plinth in front of raised foot: I Bonheur
Gift of Frederick Henry Prince Trust, 1977.218

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Art Institute of Chicago, “Small Bronzes in Chicago Collections," 22 July – 17 September 1972 [no cat.].

Publication History

Jane Horswell, Bronze Sculpture of Les Animaliers, Reference and Price Guide (Clopton, England: Antique Collectors’ Club, 1971), p. 203.

James Mackay, The Animaliers: A Collector’s Guide to the Animal Sculptors of the 19th and 20th Centuries (New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, Inc., 1973), pp. 54-55, 145-46.

Jean-Charles Hachet, Les Bronzes Animaliers, de l’antiquité à nos jours (Paris: Èditions VARIA, 1986), pp. 120-23.

Ownership History

U.S.Y.T. Industries, Chicago, before 1977; given to the Art Institute, 1977.