Joan of Arc

Painting and Sculpture of Europe

1875/1900

Henri Chapu
French, 1833-1891
Cast by: Ferdinand Barbedienne
French, 1810-1892

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

Artist: Henri Chapu
Title: Joan of Arc
Place: France (Object made in)
Date: 1875–1900
Medium: Bronze
Inscriptions: H. Chapu and F. Barbedienne, Foundeur, Paris
Dimensions: H.: 44.8 cm (17 5/8 in.)
Credit Line: Bequest of Arthur Rubloff
Reference Number: 1996.603
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Stanislas Lami, Dictionaire des sculpteurs de l’école française au dix-neuvième siècle, reprint (Nendeln, Liechtenstein: Kraus, 1970), p. 335.
Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc., Animalier and Other Nineteenth-Century Bronzes From the Collection of the Late Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge (February 20, 1976), lot 26.
New York, Shepherd Gallery, Nineteenth-Century French and Western European Sculpture in Bronze and Other Media, edited by Elisabeth Kashey and Robert Kashey (New York: Shepherd Gallery, 1985), pp. 144-46, fig. 61.
For comparison, see:
O. Fidière, Chapu: Sa vie et son oeuvre (Paris, 1894), p. 68 (ill.).
Sotheby’s, Nineteenth-Century Ceramics and Silver, Animalier Bronzes, Continental Bronzes and Sculpture, Clocks and Furniture (November 6, 1986), lot 256w.

Arthur Rubloff (d. 1986), Chicago, by 1986; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1988; accessioned by the Art Institute, 1996.

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