This year's acquisitions include a view of London by 17th-century Dutch artist Thomas Wijck; an 1872 bust of a Black woman ...

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3 2025 Outer Critics Circle Awards Winners- The Full List The Passions of Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, a major retrospective that will explore the life and work of the exceptionally gifted, deeply ...

Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, Ugolino and His Sons, 1865–67; Saint-Béat marble, H. 77 3/4 x W. 59 x D. 43 1/2 in. (197.5 x 149.9 x 110.5 cm); The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Josephine Bay Paul and ...

At the Met in New York, an in-depth look at Carpeaux’s ‘Why Born Enslaved!,’ a marble bust depicting an enslaved woman NEW YORK — In 2014, the Metropolitan Museum of Art mounted a large and revelatory ...

The nineteenth-century French sculptor Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux is gloriously uncategorizable. Although he received major public commissions and did a famous portrait of the Prince Imperial, son of ...

Carpeaux used Anna Foucart, the daughter of a Valenciennes lawyer, who also a friend and patron, as a model for La Rieuse Napolitaine. She is dressed in Neapolitan folk costume, with a flat hat ...

Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux’s bust “Why Born Enslaved!,” modelled in plaster in 1868, portrays a Black woman in bondage, a rope looped tightly around her arms and across her mostly bare chest, her head ...

Scholars have also noted that despite his anti-slavery sentiments, Carpeaux produced numerous versions of his sculpture, turning it into a money-marker to help support the operation of his large ...

In 1900 the Exposition Universelle drew thousands of art lovers to Paris, many of them arriving by train at the new Gare d’Orsay. Some 270 galleries and dealers in art and antiques bring the best of ...