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Jean-Baptiste CARPEAUX<\/span><\/h1>\n

Terracotta signed \u00a0\u00ab JBt Carpeaux \u00bb, dated \u00ab 1873 \u00bb and titled \u00ab POURQUOI NAITRE ESCLAVE \u00bb
\nMarked \u00ab Propri\u00e9t\u00e9 Carpeaux \u00bb with the Imp\u00e9rial Eagle stamp and \u00ab ATELIER & DEP\u00d4T \/ 71 RUE BOILEAU \/ AUTEUIL – PARIS \u00bb
\nH. 23,2″ x W. 16,5″ x D. 14,5″
\nRealized in 1873<\/p>\n

Provenance: private collection, Neuilly since 1977.<\/p>\n

Related works: N\u00e9gresse accroupie r\u00e9volt\u00e9e<\/em>, Louvre museum (Inv. RF 1466) ; Le Chinois n\u00b01<\/em>\u00a0; Le Chinois<\/em> (sketch) ; Les quatre parties du monde soulevant la sph\u00e8re<\/em> (sketch).<\/p>\n

Bibliography: Jeannine Durand-R\u00e9villon, \u00ab Un Promoteur de la sculpture polychrome sous le Second Empire, Charles-Henri-Joseph Cordier (1827-1905) \u00bb, Bulletin de la Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 de l’Histoire de l’Art Fran\u00e7ais, <\/em>February 6 1982, published in 1984, page 185 ; Michel Poletti and Alain Richarme, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux sculpteur, catalogue<\/em> raisonn\u00e9 de l’\u0153uvre \u00e9dit\u00e9<\/em>, Paris, 2003, p. 141, referenced under the n\u00b0 BU 38 and reproduced ; Under the direction of E\u0301douard Papet and James David Draper, Carpeaux 1827-1875 Un sculpteur pour l\u2019empire<\/em>, catalogue d\u2019exposition, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art \u00a0March 10\u2013 \u00a0May 26 2014, Paris, Orsay Museum June 24 \u2013 September 28 \u00a02014, pages 143-151.<\/p>\n

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