African Hunter

CC0 Public Domain Designation

Painting and Sculpture of Europe

1877

Pierre-Jules Mêne
French, 1810-1879

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

Artist: Pierre-Jules Mêne
Title: African Hunter
Place: France (Object made in)
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.: 1877
Medium: Wax
Inscriptions: signed and dated l.front: P.J. MENE 1877
Dimensions: 51.8 × 36.2 × 19 cm (20 3/8 × 14 1/4 × 7 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Arma Wyler Fund
Reference Number: 1984.997
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Stanislas Lami, Dictionaire des sculpteurs de l’école française au dix-neuvième siècle 3, reprint (Nendeln, Liechtenstein: Kraus, 1970), p. 430.
Ian Wardropper, “Collecting European sculpture at the Art Institute of Chicago,” Apollo 154, 475 (September 2001), pp. 10, 12 (ill.).
Michel Poletti and Alain Richarme, Pierre-Jules Mêne: Catalogue raisonné (Paris: Univers dr Bronze Editions, 2007), pp. 36-37, no F 9 (Chasseur africain no. 2) (ill.).

Paris, Annual Salon, 1878, no. 4452.

Shepherd Gallery, New York, by 1984; sold to the Art Institute, 1984.

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