Lot 157
  • 157

Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux

Estimate
1,500 - 2,000 EUR
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Description

  • Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux
  • Scène du siège de Paris, Gambetta haranguant la foule
  • Monogrammé et daté en bas à droite 1871
    Ancien n°52 en bas à droite et n°80 au dos

  • Pierre noire sur papier bistre

  • 29,5 x 24 cm ; 11 1/2 x 9 1/2 in

Provenance

Vente de Madame veuve Carpeaux, Valenciennes ; acquis par Giard (?),

Exhibited

Sous le second Empire, Grands Magasins du Louvre, Paris, Mars-Avril 1943.
Sur les traces de Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, 1975, p.229, n°243.

Literature

Claude Jeancolas, Carpeaux, la farouche volonté d'être, Lausanne 1987, reproduit p.161.

Condition

Good overall condition; the sheet is loose and appears slighlty wrapped; several foxings are visible on the photography; the paper is slightly darker than the sphotograpy shows
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Catalogue Note

"Sans jamais y être acteur, Carpeaux est curieux de ces réunions politiques. Cette scène où un personnage au centre, essaie de se faire entendre, lève les bras, entouré d'une foule gesticulante et hurlante... a le souffle héroïque de certaines oeuvres de Delacroix"(Cf. Claude Jeancolas, Carpeaux, la farouche volonté d'être, Lausanne 1987, p.161).