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Start of the Race of the Barberi Horses, Rome
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Start of the Race of the Barberi Horses, Rome

Medium

Pen and ink, watercolor, and gouache on wove paper

Dimensions

6-7/8 x 11-1/8 inches (17.4 x 28.3 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Purchase, Carl Selden Bequest and Karen B. Cohen Fund, 2000

Classification

Drawings

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux

1827–1875France

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.