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Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux

modeled in 1873, cast before 1875, probably in 1873

Medium

Cast terracotta

Tags

MenPortraits

Dimensions

29 1/8 × 22 1/16 × 16 9/16 in. (74 × 56 × 42 cm)

Collection

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

Classification

Sculpture

Department

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

Culture

French

About Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux

1827–1875 • France

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.

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