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Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (1827 – 1875)
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux was a celebrated 19th-century French sculptor known for his dynamic and emotionally charged works like "La Danse" and "Ugolino and His Sons." He masterfully blended realism with Baroque influences, capturing movement and human expression in marble and bronze.
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (Lisbon, Portugal)
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Inspired by the high relief executed, at the request of the architect Lefuel, for the Pavillon de Flore, in the Palais du Louvre, which had as its theme The Triumph of Flora, Carpeaux later made a single figure, which he called Spring. Modifying the attitude and the movement of his previous creation, the new Flora, is crouching, adorning her hair with flowers, her lips twitching in a smile that immediately enchanted the public. The face and smile are those of Anne Foucart, the daughter of Carpeaux’s great friend, Jean-Baptiste Foucart.This human-scale version was executed in 1873, when Carpeaux was living in London, where he had taken refuge after the fall of the Second Empire. It was commissioned by a great lover of art, by the name of Turner. Carpeaux also did portrait busts of Mr. and Mrs. Turner at the same period.
About this artwork
- Title: Flora
- Artist: Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux
- Year: 1873
- Format: Portrait
- Copyright status: Public domain
- Where to see it: Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
- Movement: Baroque Sculpture
- Corpus context: artist’s reputation legacy , romantic emotion
- Main color: Espresso
- Keywords: jean-baptiste foucart friend artist , sculpture london period , decorative art renaissance revival
Quick Facts
- Year: 1873
- Subject or theme: Floral motif
- Movement: Romanticism
- Artist: Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux
- Medium: Marble
- Artistic style: Baroque influence
- Notable elements or techniques: Human scale sculpture
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