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CARPEAUX, JEAN BAPTISTE (1827-1875)

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CARPEAUX, See also:JEAN See also:BAPTISTE (1827-1875) , See also:French sculptor, was See also:born at See also:Valenciennes, See also:France, on the 1th of May 1827. He was the son of a See also:mason, and passed his See also:early See also:life in extreme poverty. In 1842 he came to See also:Paris, and after working for two years in a See also:drawing-school, was admitted to the Ecole See also:des See also:Beaux-Arts on the 9th of See also:September 1854. The See also:Grand Prix de See also:Rome was awarded to his statue of " See also:Hector bearing in his arms his son Astyanax." His first See also:work exhibited at the See also:Salon, in 1853, did not show the spirit of an innovator, and was very unlike the work of his See also:master See also:Rude. At Rome he was fascinated by See also:Donatello, and yet more influenced by See also:Michelangelo, to whom he owes his feeling for vehement and passionate See also:action. He sent from Rome a bust, " La Palombella," 1856; and a " Neapolitan Fisherman," 1858. This work was again exhibited in the Salon of 18541 and took a second-class See also:medal; but it was not executed in See also:marble till 1863. In his last See also:year in Rome he sent See also:home a dramatic See also:group, " Ugolino and his Sons," and exhibited at the same See also:time a " Bust of Princess Mathilde." This gained him a second-class medal and the favour of the Imperial See also:family. In 1864 he executed the " Girl with a See also:Shell," the See also:companion figure to the See also:young fisherman; and although in 1865 he did not exhibit at the Salon, busts of Mme. A. E. See also:Andre," of " See also:Giraud " the painter, and of " Mlle.

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Benedetti " showed that he was not idle. He was working at the same time on the decorations of the See also:Pavilion de Fiore, of which the See also:pediment alone was seen at the Salon, though the bas-See also:relief below is an even better example of his See also:style. After producing a statue of the See also:prince imperial, Carpeaux was made See also:chevalier of the See also:Legion of See also:Honour in 1866. Two years later he received an important See also:commission to execute one of the four See also:groups for the See also:facade of the new See also:opera See also:house. His group, representing " Dancing," 1869, was greeted with indignant protests; it is nevertheless a See also:sound work, full of See also:movement, with no See also:fault but that of exceeding the Iimitations prescribed. In 1869 he exhibited a " Bust of M. Gamier," and followed this up with two pieces intended for his native See also:city: a statue of See also:Watteau, and a bas-relief, " Valenciennes repelling Invasion." During the See also:Commune he came to See also:England, and made a "Bust of See also:Gounod " in 1871. His last important work was a See also:fountain, the "Four Quarters of the See also:World," in which the globe is sustained by four See also:female figures personifying See also:Europe, See also:Asia, See also:Africa and See also:America. This fountain is now in the See also:Avenue de 1'Observatoire in Paris. Carpeaux, though exhausted by illness, continued designing indefatigably, till he died at the See also:Chateau de Becon, near See also:Courbevoie, on the 12th of See also:October 1875, after being promoted to the higher grade of the Legion of Honour. Many of his best drawings have been presented by Prince Stirbey to the city of Valenciennes. See Ernest Chesneau, Carpeaux, sa See also:vie et son ceuvre (Paris, 1880); See also:Paul Foucart, See also:Catalogue du Musee See also:Car peaux, Valenciennes (Paris, 1882) ; Jules See also:Claretie, J.

Carpeaux (1882) ; See also:

Francois Bournand, J. B. Carpeaux (1893).

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