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JEAN BAPTISTE CARPEAUX (1827-1875)

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 384 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JEAN See also:BAPTISTE See also:CARPEAUX (1827-1875)  , See also:French sculptor, was See also:born at See also:Valenciennes, See also:France, on the 1th of May 1827 . He was the son of a See also:mason, and passed his See also:early See also:life in extreme poverty . In 1842 he came to See also:Paris, and after working for two years in a See also:drawing-school, was admitted to the Ecole See also:des See also:Beaux-Arts on the 9th of See also:September 1854 . The See also:Grand Prix de See also:Rome was awarded to his statue of " See also:Hector bearing in his arms his son Astyanax." His first See also:work exhibited at the See also:Salon, in 1853, did not show the spirit of an innovator, and was very unlike the work of his See also:master See also:Rude . At Rome he was fascinated by See also:Donatello, and yet more influenced by See also:Michelangelo, to whom he owes his feeling for vehement and passionate See also:action . He sent from Rome a bust, " La Palombella," 1856; and a " Neapolitan Fisherman," 1858 . This work was again exhibited in the Salon of 18541 and took a second-class See also:medal; but it was not executed in See also:marble till 1863 . In his last See also:year in Rome he sent See also:home a dramatic See also:group, " Ugolino and his Sons," and exhibited at the same See also:time a " Bust of Princess Mathilde." This gained him a second-class medal and the favour of the Imperial See also:family . In 1864 he executed the " Girl with a See also:Shell," the See also:companion figure to the See also:young fisherman; and although in 1865 he did not exhibit at the Salon, busts of Mme . A . E . See also:Andre," of " See also:Giraud " the painter, and of " Mlle .

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Benedetti " showed that he was not idle . He was working at the same time on the decorations of the See also:Pavilion de Fiore, of which the See also:pediment alone was seen at the Salon, though the bas-See also:relief below is an even better example of his See also:style . After producing a statue of the See also:prince imperial, See also:Carpeaux was made See also:chevalier of the See also:Legion of See also:Honour in 1866 . Two years later he received an important See also:commission to execute one of the four See also:groups for the See also:facade of the new See also:opera See also:house . His group, representing " Dancing," 1869, was greeted with indignant protests; it is nevertheless a See also:sound work, full of See also:movement, with no See also:fault but that of exceeding the Iimitations prescribed . In 1869 he exhibited a " Bust of M . Gamier," and followed this up with two pieces intended for his native See also:city: a statue of See also:Watteau, and a bas-relief, " Valenciennes repelling Invasion." During the See also:Commune he came to See also:England, and made a "Bust of See also:Gounod " in 1871 . His last important work was a See also:fountain, the "Four Quarters of the See also:World," in which the globe is sustained by four See also:female figures personifying See also:Europe, See also:Asia, See also:Africa and See also:America . This fountain is now in the See also:Avenue de 1'Observatoire in Paris . Carpeaux, though exhausted by illness, continued designing indefatigably, till he died at the See also:Chateau de Becon, near See also:Courbevoie, on the 12th of See also:October 1875, after being promoted to the higher grade of the Legion of Honour . Many of his best drawings have been presented by Prince Stirbey to the city of Valenciennes . See Ernest Chesneau, Carpeaux, sa See also:vie et son ceuvre (Paris, 1880); See also:Paul Foucart, See also:Catalogue du Musee See also:Car peaux, Valenciennes (Paris, 1882) ; Jules See also:Claretie, J .

Carpeaux (1882) ; See also:

Francois Bournand, J . B . Carpeaux (1893) .

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