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Jean Baptiste Carpeaux
1837 - 1875
Medium
paper
Dimensions
137; 180
About this artwork
Purchased with the support of the F.G. Waller-Fonds
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...