Jean-Baptiste CARPEAUX (1827-1875) The fisherwoman... - Lot 28 - Crait + Müller

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Jean-Baptiste CARPEAUX (1827-1875) The fisherwoman... - Lot 28 - Crait + Müller
Jean-Baptiste CARPEAUX (1827-1875) The fisherwoman vignots Model created in 1874. Bronze with a reddish brown patina. Signed JB Carpeaux in cursive letters on the terrace. Bearing the stamp PROPRIETE CARPEAUX in printed letters with the imperial eagle. Titled PUYS on the front. H.73 cm RELATED WORK : Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, La pêcheuse de vignots, 1874, plaster with terracotta patina, H. 74.2 cm, Valenciennes, Musée des Beaux-Arts, inv. S.92.34. RELATED LITERATURE : Michel Poletti, Alain Richarme, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, sculpteur. Catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre édité, Paris, Les expressions contemporaines, 2003, model listed under N°SE18, p. 95. Suffering from illness, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux isolated himself in Dieppe at the home of his friend Alexandre Dumas to recover in the summer of 1874. He met his young model, a young fisherwoman, during a walk in Puys and was struck by the beauty of this figure dressed in worn rags. Puys or the Fisherwoman of Vignots is the last work of the sculptor to be published.
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