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Jean Baptiste Carpeaux

France, 1827–1875

WA-00114657

Paris

SculptureRomanticism

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Smithsonian

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BiographyGeneric· 90%✓
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Smithsonianhttps://www.si.edu/object/saam_1929.8.395
Tier 1 · Institutional90%

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Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux was a French sculptor and painter during the Second Empire under Napoleon III.

Source: Smithsonian Institution · Trust score: 90% · Updated 1mo ago

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Artworks (9)

Beeldhouwwerk van roze terracotta: jonge vrouw met halfnaakt, schreeuwend kind op de arm en aan haar voeten een hond. Op rond voetstuk.

1874 · molding on terracotta (clay material)

diameter: 19 cm, height: 61 cm

Rijksmuseum

Allegory of Science

1865 · Plaster

24 × 36 cm (9 7/16 × 14 1/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

France Lighting the World

1865 · Plaster

36.5 × 31 cm (14 3/8 × 12 3/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Allegory of Agriculture

1865 · Plaster

26 × 37 cm (10 1/4 × 14 1/2 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Ugolino and his Children

1863 · Bronze

48.9 × 37.2 × 22.9 cm (19 1/4 × 14 5/8 × 9 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Study for the Sculpture Ugolino and His Children

1860 · Pen and brown ink and opaque white and gray watercolors with white oil paint and black watercolor over black chalk on brown wove paper (Bristol board)

62.4 × 47.9 cm (24 5/8 × 18 7/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Portrait Bust of Comtesse d'Affry, née Lucie de Maillardoz (1816-1897)

1855 · Plaster

54.6 × 48.9 × 33.9 cm (26 1/2 × 19 1/4 × 13 1/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Back View of Seated Figure, Lifting Left Arm

1847 · Black and white chalk on blue wove paper

16 × 12.2 cm (6 5/16 × 4 13/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Schets naar zelfportret van Rembrandt

1837 · paper, chalk

height: 180 cm, width: 137 cm

Rijksmuseum

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9 published of 9 catalogued · 9 with image

Art Institute Chicago
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Rijksmuseum
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2 entries · 1 sources

Beeldhouwwerk van roze terracotta: jonge vrouw met halfnaakt, schreeuwend kind op de arm en aan haar voeten een hond. Op rond voetstuk.
1874 · Rijksmuseum · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Schets naar zelfportret van Rembrandt
1837 · Rijksmuseum · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number

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