Neapolitan Fisherboy (Pêcheur napolitain à la coquille)
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux
1857-after 1861
Medium
marble
Dimensions
overall: 92 × 42 × 47 cm, 390 lb. (36 1/4 × 16 9/16 × 18 1/2 in., 176.903 kg)
Classification
Sculpture
Department
CSD
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Samuel H. Kress Collection
Accession Number
1943.4.89
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.