Bust of a Young Woman (recto); Seated Female Figure (verso)
Jean Baptiste Carpeaux
1847/75
Medium
Black chalk, with stumping (recto), and black chalk (verso), on gray-brown wove paper
Dimensions
25.4 × 24 cm (10 × 9 1/2 in.)
Classification
chalk
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
113828
About the Artist
Jean Baptiste Carpeaux · 1827–1875
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (1827–1875) was a French sculptor and painter who became the most dynamic and expressive sculptor of the Second Empire period, bridging the traditions of Romantic sculpture and the emerging naturalism of the later nineteenth century. Born in Valenciennes into a working-class family, he studied at the Petit École and the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris under François Rude and F...