The Reaper

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Painting and Sculpture of Europe

c. 1895

Constantin Emile Meunier (Belgian, 1831–1905)

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

Artist: Constantin Emile Meunier
Title: The Reaper
Place: Belgium (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.: 1890–1895
Medium: Bronze, dark brown patina
Inscriptions: Signed: E. VERBEYST.FONDEUR. / BRUXELLES. (proper back left on plinth); C. Meunier (in script on upper surface of plinth)
Dimensions: 56.5 × 43.2 × 23.5 cm (22 1/4 × 17 × 9 1/4 in.)
Credit Line: Bequest of Celia Schmidt
Reference Number: 1977.928
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Walther Gensel, Constantin Meunier (Bielefeld und Leipzig, 1905), p. 37 (ill.).
Christian Brinton, Constantin Meunier (New York, Columbia University, 1914), p.45 (ill.). [labeled as The Mower]
Louis Piérard, Constantin Meunier (Brussels, Dietrich, 1937), p. 23 (ill.). [labeled as Le Faucher au Travail, The Mower, Der Maher]
Sura Levine and Françoise Urban, “Constantin Meunier, A Life of Labor,” Hommage à Constantin Meunier, 1831–1905 [Galerie Maurice Tzwern, 1998], pp. 68–9, no. 13.

Celia Schmidt, Chicago, before 1977; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1977.

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