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Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux

1868–1875

Medium

Pen and black ink over gray and brown wash

Tags

SculptureWomen

Dimensions

Sheet: 9 5/8 x 7 15/16 in. (24.5 x 20.2cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Gift of the Estate of James Hazen Hyde, 1959

Classification

Drawings

Department

Drawings and Prints

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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