Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux - New York City, NY
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N 40° 46.762 W 073° 57.762
18T E 587529 N 4514782
This sculpture is located at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Waymark Code: WMPVB6
Location: New York, United States
Date Posted: 10/23/2015
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member Dorcadion Team
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This life-sized bronze sculpture depicts the French artist Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux standing on a rocky prominence holding a small sculpture in his left hand and a clump of something else...probably clay in his right as he apparently studies a model.
The Museum's website (visit link) informs us:

"Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux at Work
Artist: Antoine-Émile Bourdelle (French, Montauban 1861–1929 Vésinet)
Founder: Cast by Alexis Rudier (French)
Date: modeled ca. 1908–09
Culture: French
Medium: Bronze
Dimensions: 98 5/16 × 42 × 29 in. (249.8 × 106.7 × 73.7 cm)
Classification: Sculpture-Bronze
Credit Line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. B. Gerald Cantor, 1983
Accession Number: 1983.562
On view in Gallery 548"

and Wikipedia (visit link) adds:

"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 Valenciennes, Nord, son of a mason, his early studies were under François Rude. Carpeaux entered the École des Beaux-Arts in 1844 and won the Prix de Rome in 1854, and moving to Rome to find inspiration, he there studied the works of Michelangelo, Donatello and Verrocchio. Staying in Rome from 1854 to 1861, he obtained a taste for movement and spontaneity, which he joined with the great principles of baroque art. Carpeaux sought real life subjects in the streets and broke with the classical tradition.

While a student in Rome, Carpeaux submitted a plaster version of Pêcheur napolitain à la coquille, the Neapolitan Fisherboy, to the French Academy. He carved the marble version several years later, showing it in the Salon exhibition of 1863. It was purchased for Napoleon III's empress, Eugénie. The statue of the young smiling boy was very popular, and Carpeaux created a number of reproductions and variations in marble and bronze. There is a copy, for instance, in the Samuel H. Kress Collection in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.. Some years later, he carved the Girl with a Shell, a very similar study.

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 awarded the chevalier of the Legion of Honour.

He employed his brother as the sales manager and made a calculated effort to produce work that would appeal to a larger audience.[2] On 12 October 1875, he died at the Chateau de Bécon.

Among his students were Jules Dalou, Jean-Louis Forain and the American sculptor Olin Levi Warner. Carpeaux died at age 48 in Courbevoie."
URL of the statue: [Web Link]

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