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Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (French, 1827-1875)
Asia
The Chinese …
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301
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Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (French, 1827-1875)
Asia
The Chinese …
See original version (French)
Estimate €9,000 - €11,000
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Description
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (French, 1827-1875)
Asia
The Chinese n°2
Terracotta.
Cursive signature. Stamps: "Propriété Carpeaux" with the Imperial Eagle, "Atelier & Dépôt / 74, rue Boileau /Auteuil. Paris" and proof number "1788".
Height 33.5 Width 23.5 Depth 14 cm.
Bibliography :
- Michel Poletti, Alain Richarme, "Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux sculpteur. Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre édité", Paris, Editions de l'Amateur, 2003, a bronze model reproduced on p. 123, n°BU23;
- Michel Poletti, "Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux l'homme qui faisait danser les pierres", Montreuil Seine-Saint-Denis, Gourcuff Gradenigo, 2012, details of the model for the Observatoire fountain p. 160-161.
We would like to thank Mr Alain Richarme who kindly confirmed the existence of this terracotta proof of "Chinois n°2", not mentioned in his 2003 catalogue raisonné.
Carpeaux. Asia or Chinese man no.2. Terracotta.
About thirty centimetres high, this bust of a Chinese man is an offshoot of a monumental work by Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux: the "Fontaine des Quatre-Parties-du-Monde". Commissioned in 1867 by Baron Haussmann to be placed opposite the Observatory, it features the personifications of America, Africa, Europe and Asia supporting the celestial sphere.
This bust is the result of Carpeaux's research into the representation of the face of Asia.
It was produced in three different models: "l'Esquisse" with its impressionist treatment, Chinois n°1 in large dimensions and Chinois n°2 in small dimensions. Terracotta, bronze, plaster and marble are used. Not mentioned in the catalogue raisonné, the terracotta proof of "Chinois n°2" is rare. It would have been published during the artist's lifetime with date stamps, then posthumously in his studio in Auteuil by his family, as was this proof.
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