Madame Defly (1785–1875)
Medium
Cast bronze
Dimensions
Diameter: 7 1/4 in. (18.4 cm)
Classification
Sculpture-Bronze
Culture
French, Paris
Department
European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Stephen K. Scher Gift, 2013
Accession Number
2013.254
Tags
PortraitsWomen
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.