Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux is remembered for work the next generation could not ignore.
The record lists Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux as French sculptor and painter (1827–1875).
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux was born at Valenciennes in 1827. His recorded nationality is France. He trained at Beaux-Arts de Paris and French Academy in Rome.
The nineteenth century broke the academy's authority: independent exhibitions, dealers and the beginnings of modernism.
He worked as sculptor, painter and printmaker.
His recorded movement is romanticism.
Among his best-known works are buste of Charles Garnier, Ugolin entouré de ses quatre enfants and The Negress. A painting outlives the argument about it, which is the only durable form of an artistic reputation.
Recognition followed: Prix de Rome (1854).
That the work was made in France shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux died in 1875, aged 48. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
Achievements
- Prix de Rome — 1854
- Notable work: buste of Charles Garnier
- Notable work: Ugolin entouré de ses quatre enfants
- Notable work: The Negress
- Notable work: Pourquoi naître esclave ?
- Movement: Romanticism
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