La Pensée

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Painting and Sculpture of Europe

c. 1900

Henri Chapu (French, 1833 1891)
Cast by Thiebaut Freres Fumiere et Cie. (French)

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

Artist: Henri Chapu (Sculptor)
Title: La Pensée
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.: 1895–1905
Medium: Bronze
Dimensions: 32.3 × 21.1 cm (13 9/16 × 8 5/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift from the Edward A. and Inge Maser Collection
Reference Number: 1991.307
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Stanislas Lami, Dictionaire des sculpteurs de l’école française au dix-neuvième siècle, reprint (Nendeln, Liechtenstein: Kraus, 1970), p. 336.
Anne Pingeot, “Flaubert et le Balzac de Chapu,” La revue du Louvre et des Musées de France 29 (1979), pp. 35-43.
For comparison, see:
O. Fidière, Chapu: Sa vie et son oeuvre (Paris, 1894), pp. 154 (ill.), 251.

Edward A. and Inge Maser, Chicago, before 1991; given to the Art Institute, 1991.

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