Carpeaux
Americannoun
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While visiting the Musée d’Orsay, the sculpture “Les Quatre Parties du monde soutenant la sphère céleste” by the 19th century artist Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux transfixes me.
From New York Times • Dec. 10, 2022
It was part of a series of 250, and the overt commercialism of its reproduction references the commercial forces that drove Carpeaux to make multiples of his work.
From Washington Post • May 14, 2022
The plaster appears as a void bounded by the famous, anguished face, and suggests both the desire and futility of any effort to get “inside” the head of the unknown figure who modeled for Carpeaux.
From Washington Post • May 14, 2022
The mannered style of the female figure called “Undine” looks back to the art of the French sculptor Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux half a century earlier.
From New York Times • May 6, 2010
After producing a statue of the prince imperial, Carpeaux was made chevalier of the Legion of Honour in 1866.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" by Various
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