La Source

Painting and Sculpture of Europe

1864

Albert Ernest Carrier-Belleuse (French, 1824–1887)

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

Artist: Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse
Title: La Source
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.: 1859–1869
Medium: Terracotta
Dimensions: 46.4 × 54.6 × 27.9 cm (18 1/4 × 21 1/2 × 11 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Leopold Blumka
Reference Number: 1964.318
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Stanislas Lami, Dictionaire des sculpteurs de l’école française au dix-neuvième siècle 2, reprint (Nendeln, Liechtenstein, 1970), pp. 283–84.
June Ellen Hargrove, The Life and Work of Albert Ernest Carrier-Belleuse (New York: Garland Publishing, 1977), pp. xiii, 188–89, no. 148.
Sophie Lillie, Was einmal war: Hundbuch der enteigneten Kunstsammlung Wiens (Vienna: Czernin Verlag, 2003), p. 224.

Art Institute of Chicago, “European Terracotta Sculpture from the Permanent Collection,” 27 July – 13 October 1983 [no cat.].

Sold, the artist’s estate sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, December 19–23, 1887, lot 108. Oscar Bondy, Vienna, by 1939 [according to copy of inventory, reproduced in Lillie 2003, p. 224]; confiscated by the Nazis for Hitler’s projected museum at Linz, 1939 [see source cited above]; restituted to Oscar’s widow, Elizabeth Bondy, New York, 1946 [according to Lillie 2003, p. 244; see also restitution receipt, April 25, 1946, Ardelia Hall Records, RG 260, Box 286, copy in curatorial file]. Victoria and Leopold Blumka, New York, before 1964; given to the Art Institute, 1964.

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