Standing Figure in a Niche and Studies for the Ugolino Group (recto); Red-Robed Prelate in a Crowd (verso)
1857/58
Medium
Pen and black ink, with touches of pink gouache (recto), and pen and black ink with brush and gray wash and red and white gouache (verso), on blue wove paper
Dimensions
29.4 × 21.9 cm (11 5/8 × 8 5/8 in.)
Classification
pen and ink drawings
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
113820
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...