Alexandre Dumas fils
modeled in 1873, cast before 1875, probably in 1873
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Cast terracotta
Dimensions
29 1/8 × 22 1/16 × 16 9/16 in. (74 × 56 × 42 cm)
Classification
Sculpture
Culture
French
Department
European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, The Isaacson-Draper Fund and Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Foundation and The Ford Foundation Gifts, 2023
Accession Number
2023.152
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About the Artist
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux · 1827–1875
Carpeaux's exuberant work was a decisive break from Neoclassical art. He won the Prix de Rome in 1854 and received many portrait bust commissions from the court. His most famous sculpture group is 'La Danse' (1869) made for the Paris Opéra. So bold is its message of bacchanalian revelry that it was vandalized in protest. French artist.