Eagle Expiring, Monument for Waterloo

Painting and Sculpture of Europe

Modeled c. 1900, cast after 1902

Jean Léon Gérôme (French, 1824–1904)

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe

Artist: Jean Léon Gérôme
Title: Eagle Expiring, Monument for Waterloo
Place: France (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Modeled 1895–1905
Medium: Gilt bronze
Inscriptions: Marked: Siot-Decauville Fondeur Paris; [?]28K (on back of base)
Dimensions: 68.6 × 71.1 cm (27 × 28 in.)
Credit Line: George F. Harding Collection
Reference Number: 1990.580

Musée de Vesoul, Gérôme: Jean-Léon Gérôme, 18224-1904, peintre, sculpteur et graveur: ses oeuvres conserves dans les collections françaises publiques et privées, exh. cat. (La Ville de Vesoul, 1981), no. 198, p. 155.
Gerald M. Ackerman, The Life and Work of Jean-Léon Gérôme, with a Catalogue Raisonné (Sotheby’s, 1986), p. 328, cat. S.58.
Gerald M. Ackerman, Jean-Léon Gérôme: Monographie revisée, Catalogue raisonné mis à jour (Paris: ACR Edition Internationale, 2000), no.S58, p. 400.

George F. Harding, Jr. (d. 1939), Chicago, by 1939; bequeathed to the George F. Harding Museum, Chicago, 1939; transferred to the Art Institute, 1982; accessioned by the Art Institute, 1990.

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