Description
BUST OF A CHINESE MAN (SECOND VERSION) (1872)
Jean-Baptiste CARPEAUX
Bronze with triple patina: light brown with gold highlights for the face, rich brown for the garment and black-brown for the braided hair, signed “Carpeaux”
Stamped PROPRIETE CARPEAUX and twice with the Imperial Eagle
Height 27 1/16 inches
Circa 1872 – 1875
Provenance: in the same French family collection for several generations
Related works: Le Chinois (sketch) ; Pourquoi naître esclave, n°1 ; Les Quatre parties du monde soulevant la sphère (sketch).
Bibliography: Michel Poletti, Alain Richarme Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux sculpteur, catalogue raisonné de l’œuvre édité, Paris, 2003, p.123, example reproduced under the n° BU 24, reproduced page 125. Under the direction of Édouard Papet and James David Draper, Carpeaux 1827-1875 Un sculpteur pour l’empire, exposition : New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art March 10 – May 26 2014, Paris, musée d’Orsay June 24 – September 28, 2014, page 148.
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