
Art Institute of ChicagoPublic domain
La Pensée
Henri Chapu · c. 1900
Provenance
Ownership history
- Edward A. and Inge Maser, Chicago, before 1991; given to the Art Institute, 1991.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Literature
Published references
- 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.
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