Boy crying
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux
1870–72
Medium
Cast terracotta
Dimensions
Height: 4 3/4 in. (12.1 cm)
Classification
Sculpture
Culture
French, Paris
Department
European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Eugene Victor Thaw, 1988
Accession Number
1988.288.2
Tags
SadnessBoys
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.