About the Artwork
The Hammerman
between 1884 and 1890
Constantin Émile Meunier
1831-1905
Belgian
Unknown
Bronze
Overall: 46 × 17 × 19 5/8 inches (116.8 × 43.2 × 49.8 cm)
Sculpture
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
Founders Society Purchase, Popular Subscription Fund
14.2
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Provenance
1914-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Brinton, C. "Constantin Meunier." Bulletin of the Detroit Museum of Art (1914): p. 75, no. 87.
Bulletin of the Detroit Museum of Art 8, no. 2 (1914): pp. 21, 25 (ill.).
Bulletin of the DIA 1, no. 7 (1920): p. 123 (ill.).
At Work. Exh. cat., Milwaukee Art Center. Milwaukee, 1960, no. 14.
"Family Art Game," DIA Advertising Supplement, Detroit Free Press, April 27, 1980, p. 25 (ill.).
"Family Art Game," DIA Advertising Supplement, Detroit News/Detroit Free Press, April 18, 1982, p. 27 (ill.).
Weibel, Adele Coulin. "Tapestries by Franz and Jacob Geubels." Bulletin of the DIA 27, no. 1 (1947-1948): pp. 6-10, p. 8 (ill.), 1950, pp. 10-11 (ill.).
Alhadeff, A. "Meunier and Minne: subterranean visions and the blue summits of the soul." Bulletin of the DIA 65, no. 1 (1989) pp. 23-35 (ill.).
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Constantin Émile Meunier, The Hammerman, between 1884 and 1890, bronze. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Popular Subscription Fund, 14.2.
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