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Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux French, 1827-1875
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Description
- Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux
- Pecheur à la Coquille (a fisherboy listening to a shell)
- signed & dated: Carpeaux Rome. 1857 and with the PROPRIÉTÉ CARPEAUX stamp
- bronze, dark brown patina
Catalogue Note
The Jeune Pêcheur à la Coquille epitomises Carpeaux's style and quickly became a symbol of his art, revised and repeated in many forms. From the sculpture's debut at the 1858 Salon, it was rightly seen as a masterful synthesis of contemporary and Renaissance influences: contemporary in its homage to Carpeaux's master, Franços Rude, whose Jeune Pêcheur à la Tortue was the yardstick by which his work was to be compared and Renaissance in its reflection of the influence of Donatello and Michelangelo whose oeuvres he studied during his sojourn at the Villa Medici.
RELATED LITERATURE
Romantics to Rodin, pp. 145-6, no.29; Wagner, pp. 149-50; Poletti & Richarme (2003), p. 63
RELATED LITERATURE
Romantics to Rodin, pp. 145-6, no.29; Wagner, pp. 149-50; Poletti & Richarme (2003), p. 63