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Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux French, 1827 - 1875
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
bidding is closed
Description
- Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux
- JEUNE PÊCHEUR À LA COQUILLE
- signed J. B. Carpeaux, inscribed Susse Fes Edts Paris and with the Susse Frères foundry seal
- bronze, dark brown patina
- height 24 1/2 in.
- 62 cm
Literature
M. Poletti and A. Richarme, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux sculpteur. Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre édité, Paris, 2003, p. 63, no. SA 9
Condition
Overall in good original condition with the usual wear to the patina in places especially to high reliefs of the composition and such consistent with handling, touching, and cleaning. Light scratches consistent with age.
In response to your inquiry, we are pleased to provide you with a general report of the condition of the property described above. Since we are not professional conservators or restorers, we urge you to consult with a restorer or conservator of your choice who will be better able to provide a detailed, professional report. Prospective buyers should inspect each lot to satisfy themselves as to condition and must understand that any statement made by Sotheby's is merely a subjective qualified opinion.
NOTWITHSTANDING THIS REPORT OR ANY DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING CONDITION OF A LOT, ALL LOTS ARE OFFERED AND SOLD "AS IS" IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS OF SALE PRINTED IN THE CATALOGUE.
In response to your inquiry, we are pleased to provide you with a general report of the condition of the property described above. Since we are not professional conservators or restorers, we urge you to consult with a restorer or conservator of your choice who will be better able to provide a detailed, professional report. Prospective buyers should inspect each lot to satisfy themselves as to condition and must understand that any statement made by Sotheby's is merely a subjective qualified opinion.
NOTWITHSTANDING THIS REPORT OR ANY DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING CONDITION OF A LOT, ALL LOTS ARE OFFERED AND SOLD "AS IS" IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS OF SALE PRINTED IN THE CATALOGUE.
Catalogue Note
The Jeune Pêcheur à la Coquille epitomizes 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.