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Virgin and Child with St. John the Baptist
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Virgin and Child with St. John the Baptist

Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux

19th century

Medium

Plaster

Tags

Madonna and Child

Dimensions

Height: 14 3/4 in. (37.5 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Gift of Eugene V. Thaw, 1998

Classification

Sculpture

Department

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

Culture

French

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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