Bust of a Young Girl
Medium
etching on Japan paper
Dimensions
plate: 16.8 × 11.5 cm (6 5/8 × 4 1/2 in.) sheet: 16.8 × 11.8 cm (6 5/8 × 4 5/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
The Helena E.M. Gunnarsson Fund
Accession Number
2023.66.2
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.