Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux
19th century Neoclassical sculptor, painter, and etcher
(Valenciennes, France, 1827 - 1875, Courbevoie, 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.
2 objects
ca. 1869
plaster
Museum Purchase, Sylvia E. Ross Fund and Helen Johnson Chase Fund
1967.3
1827-1875
pen and ink on paper
Museum Purchase
1967.5
