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230 - Jean-Baptiste CARPEAUX (1827–1875)
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Jean-Baptiste CARPEAUX (1827–1875) The Mocking Love Bronze cast with a gold patina Lost-wax casting by Susse Frères, signed and bearing the foundry’s stamp H. 72 cm Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (1827–1875) was a French sculptor considered one of the most innovative artists of the Second Empire. Breaking with Neoclassicism, he introduced movement and great expressiveness into sculpture. Born in Valenciennes into a working-class family, he enrolled at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and won the Prix de Rome in 1854. Upon his return to France, he became the official portraitist and protégé of Napoleon III’s imperial family. Carpeaux sought to make the stone “vibrate.” His masterpiece, *La Danse* (1869), created for the façade of the Opéra Garnier, caused a resounding scandal at the time.Worn down by illness, he died in 1875 at the age of only 48. This bronze was cast from a model left unfinished in his studio.
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