Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux | |
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Born | |
Died | 12 October 1875 Bécon-les-Bruyères (Courbevoie), France | (aged 48)
Nationality | French |
Known for | Sculpture, painting |
Notable work | La Fontaine des quatre parties due monde Triomphe de Flore Le Génie de la Danse Le Pécheur napolitain La Frileuse |
Patron(s) | Jean-Baptiste Foucart |
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (11 May 1827 – 12 October 1875) was a French sculptor and painter during the Second Empire under Napoleon III.
Life
Born in
Carpeaux debuted at the
Carpeaux soon grew tired of academicism and became a wanderer on the streets of Rome. He spent free time admiring the frescoes of Michelangelo at the Sistine Chapel. Carpeaux said, "When an artist feels pale and cold, he runs to Michelangelo in order to warm himself, as with the rays of the sun".[1]
While a student in Rome, Carpeaux submitted a plaster version of Pêcheur napolitain à la coquille, the Neapolitan Fisherboy, to the
In 1861, he made a bust of Princess Mathilde, and this later brought him several commissions from Napoleon III. Then in 1866, he established his own atelier in order to reproduce and make work on a grander scale. In 1866, he was made chevalier of the Legion of Honour.[2]
He employed his brother as the sales manager and made a calculated effort to produce work that would appeal to a larger audience.[3] On 12 October 1875, he died at George Barbu Știrbei's château in Bécon-les-Bruyères, outside Courbevoie.[2]
Among his students were Jules Dalou, Jean-Louis Forain and the American sculptor Olin Levi Warner.
Work
- Ugolin et ses fils (Ugolino and His Sons) (1861; Metropolitan Museum of Art)[4] with versions in other museums including the Musée d'Orsay, Paris.
- The Dance, commissioned for the Opera Garnier in 1869, featuring several nude figures in a wild and boisterous dance, criticized as an offense to common decency
- Musée du Louvre, Paris)[5]
- Young girl with a shell, Valenciennes
- Antoine Watteau monument, Valenciennes
- Hector Lefuel, 1865
- The multifigure allegorical group on the top of the City Hall of his home town, Valenciennes, 1860–1873
- Fontaine de l'Observatoire, also known as the Carpeaux Fountain, south of the Jardin du Luxembourg. Partly complete at his death, Carpeaux finished the terrestrial globe with the cardinal points represented by the four figures of Asia (East), Europe (North), America (West) and Africa (South).[6]
- Opera Garnier(1869)
In popular culture
The Carpeaux: a cake made with butter cream and candied chestnuts between two oval
Images
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Bust of Carpeaux Saint Roch Cemetery
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The Seasons turning the celestial Sphere for the Fountain of the Observatory, Jardin du Luxembourg
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National Museum in Warsaw
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Patinated plaster model for Valenciennes defending the arts of peace with the arts of war
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Opera Garnier, heavily criticized as being indecent
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Ugolino and His Sons, 1857–1860. Photographed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Young Girl With a Shell, Valenciennes
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Le Triomphe de Flore (The Triumph of Flora), 1866. South façade of the Pavillon de Flore, Louvre Palace, Paris
References
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Carpeaux's Dance,[8] Smarthistory[9] |
- ^ ISBN 0-88740-629-7.
- ^ a b Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 5 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 384.
- ^ Frusco, Peter, Janson, H.W., The Romantics to Rodin, George Braziller, Inc., 1980
- ^ "Ugolin et ses fils". Archived from the original on 23 May 2015. Retrieved 4 October 2014.
- ^ "Pêcheur à la coquille". Archived from the original on 23 May 2015. Retrieved 4 October 2014.
- ^ See the article by Elizabeth McGrath in The Slave in European Art: From Renaissance Trophy to Abolitionist Emblem, ed Elizabeth Mcgrath and Jean Michel Massing, London (The Warburg Institute) 2012
- ^ Dominique Auzias, Jean-Paul Labourdette, Hauts de France 2018/2019 Petit Futé, Paris, (2018)
- ^ "Carpeaux's Dance". Archived from the original on 22 June 2013. Retrieved 4 October 2014.
- ^ "Carpeaux's Dance". Smarthistory at Khan Academy. Archived from the original on 22 June 2013. Retrieved 23 February 2013.
External links
- A page from insecula.com listing more views of Carpeaux's works (it may be necessary to close an advertising window to view this page)
- A page analysing Carpeaux's Ugolino, with numerous illustrations
- Europe in the age of enlightenment and revolution, a catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Libraries (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on Carpeaux (see index)
- Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux in American public collections, on the French Sculpture Census website