
Ugolino and his Children
Jean Baptiste Carpeaux · 1863–65
Provenance
Ownership history
- Private collection, Paris [according to original dealer solicitation and letter from Ay-Whang Hsia to Brandon Ruud, October 21, 2002, in curatorial file]. Wildenstein and Company, New York, by 1971; sold to the Art Institute, 1971.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Art Institute of Chicago, "Small Bronzes from Chicago Collections," 22 July - 3 October 1972 [no cat.].
Literature
Published references
- Paris, Hôtel Drouot, Catalogue des tableaux, dessins, esquisses et marbres par Carpeaux (May 30, 1894), lot 543.
- Frances A. Yates, "Transformations of Dante's Ugolino," Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 13 (1950), p. 117, fig. 22b.
- Cambridge, Mass., Fogg Art Museum, Metamorphoses in Nineteenth-Century Sculpture (1975), p. 123, figs. 14-15a.
- Jeremy Cooper, Nineteenth-Century Romantic Bronzes: French, English and American Bronzes, 1830-1915 (New York, 1975), pp. 29, 73, ill. opp. p. 73.
- Paris, Grand Palais, Sur les traces de Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (March 11 - May 5, 1975), p. 89, no. 82.
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Romantics to Rodin: French Nineteenth-Century Sculpture from North American Collections (1980), pp. 146-48, nos. 31 and 32.
- Nice, Galerie des Ponchettes, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, 1827-1875: sculptures, peintrues, dessins (1980), no. 14.
- Claude Jeancolas, Carpeaux: La farouche volonté d'etre (Lausanne, 1987), p. 72.
- Michel Poletti and Alain Richarme, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, sculpteur: catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre édité (Paris, 2003), pp. 71-73.
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