Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux

Sculptor

Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux was born in Valenciennes, Hauts-de-France, France on May 11th, 1827 and is the Sculptor. At the age of 48, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.

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Date of Birth
May 11, 1827
Nationality
France
Place of Birth
Valenciennes, Hauts-de-France, France
Death Date
Oct 12, 1875 (age 48)
Zodiac Sign
Taurus
Profession
Painter, Sculptor
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Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux Life

During the Second Empire under Napoleon III, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (11 May 1827 – 12 October 1875) was a French sculptor and painter.

Life

Born in Valenciennes, Nord, the son of a mason, his early studies were under François Rude. Carpeaux entered the École des Beaux Arts in 1844 and was awarded the Prix de Rome in 1854, and after heading to Rome to be inspired, he began to research Michelangelo, Donatello, and Verrocchio. He lived in Rome from 1854 to 1861, gaining a taste for movement and spontaneity, which he embraced with the great traditions of baroque art. Carpeaux wanted real life experiences in the streets and broke with the classical style.

Carpeaux debuted in 1853 at the Salon exhibiting La Soumission d'Abd-El-Empereur, a bas-relief in plaster that attracted little interest. During Napoléon III's official ride through France, Carpeaux rode from city to city. After initially lacking any contact with the emperor, he finally succeeded in arranging a face-to-face meeting in Amiens, where he managed to convince Napoléon to commission a marble statue that was supposed to be carried out by a master, Charles Romain Capellaro.

Carpeaux became a wanderer on Rome's streets soon enough, becoming a student. He spent free time at the Sistine Chapel admiring Michelangelo's frescoes. "When an artist is feeling pale and cold, he goes to Michelangelo in order to warm himself as with the sun's rays."

Carpeaux submitted a plaster version of Pêcheur napolitan Fisherboy to the French Academy while a student at Rome. He carved the marble version several years later and exhibited it in the Salon exhibition of 1863. Eugénie, Napoleon III's empress, received it. The statue of the young smiling boy was incredibly popular, and Carpeaux created a number of reproductions and bronze variations. For example, there is a copy in the Samuel H. Kress Collection in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., of course. A Shell sculptured the Girl with a Shell some years ago, a similar study was conducted several years ago.

He made a bust of Princess Mathilde in 1861, and later received several commissions from Napoleon III. In 1866, then founded his own atelier in the hopes of reproducing and making work on a grander scale. He was made chevalier of the Legion of Honour in 1866.

He drafted his brother as the sales manager and made a deliberate attempt to produce work that would appeal to a larger audience. He died at George Barbu's château in Bécon-les-Bruyères, just south of Courbevoie, on October 12th.

Jules Dalou, Jean-Louis Forain, and American sculptor Olin Levi Warner were among his students.

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