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Model for the Watteau Fountain
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Model for the Watteau Fountain

Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux

ca. 1867–68

Medium

Patinated plaster

Tags

Men

Dimensions

30 1/8 × 23 1/8 in. (76.5 × 58.7 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Gift of Yulla Lipchitz, 1991

Classification

Sculpture

Department

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

Culture

French

Rights

Public Domain

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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