attributed to:

FALGUIÈRE, Alexandre

Toulouse, Haute-Garonne 1831 - Paris 1900

Jeune homme

Bust of a Young Man

c. 1870-1875

terracotta

bust

Dimensions (HxWxD): 19 ⁷⁄₈ x 9 ¹⁄₈ in.

Acc. No.: formerly/autrefois 1974.442

Credit Line: Deaccessioned by the Art Institute of Chicago

Photo credit: ph. Art Institute of Chicago

© Artist : public domain

© Artist : public domain

formerly/autrefois Chicago, Illinois, The Art Institute of Chicago

www.artic.edu/aic

Provenance

• before 1974, Chicago, John Maxon
• 1974, given to the Art Institute, Anonymous gift in memory of Chester D. Tripp
• Deaccessioned and sold by the Art Institute of Chicago
• 2022, January 28, New York, Sotheby's, Master Sculpture & Works of Art Sale Part II, lot 587, estimate $ 1,000-2,000

Bibliography

• Museum's website, 29 October 2011
• 1902 Rambosson
  Yvanhoé Rambosson, “Quelques oeuvres peu connues d'Alexandre Falguière,” Les Arts 1 (1902)
• 1970 Lami
  Stanislas Lami, Dictionnaire des sculpteurs de l'école française, reprint (Nendeln, Liechtenstein: Kraus, 1970), pp. 324-335
• For comparison, see:
• 1884 Claretie
  Jules Claretie, Peintres & Sculpteurs Contemporains (Paris: Librairie Bibliophiles, 1884)
• 1898 La Plume
  Alexandre Falguiere: Sculpteur et Peintre (Paris: Société anonyme La Plume, 1898)
• 1900 Gazette des Beaux-Arts
  Gazette des Beaux-Arts, t. 23 (1900), p. 399

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