About the Artwork
Profil d'ouvrier
1895
Constantin Émile Meunier
1831-1905
Belgian
Unknown
Bronze
Overall: 13 15/16 × 11 13/16 × 1 3/16 inches, 7.4 pounds (35.4 × 30 × 3 cm, 3.4 kg)
Sculpture
European Modern Art to 1970
Founders Society Purchase, Howard Young Fund
80.107
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Markings
Signed, in bronze, at base of figure's neck, lower right: C. Meunier
Inscribed, dated, upper left: 1895
Provenance
(Fischer-Kiener Gallery, Paris, France)
1980-present, purchased by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Western European Bronzes of the Nineteenth Century: A Survey. Shepherd Gallery. New York, 1973, no. 79 (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.).
The Influence of Paris: European and American Sculpture 1830-1930. Detroit: Detroit Institute of Arts, 1981, cat. no. 13, p. 19, (ill.).
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Constantin Émile Meunier, Profil d'ouvrier, 1895, bronze. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Howard Young Fund, 80.107.
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