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Artist: Emmanuel Fremiet
These statues came to the Urbana campus by mistake with the purchase of the contents of Lorado Taft’s studio in 1937. After years of being kept in storage and following prolonged negotiations, they were donated to the university in 1959 by the heir of the original owner.