COLLECTION NAME:
The AMICA Library
Record
AMICA ID:
CMA_.1975.5
AMICA Library Year:
2002
Object Type:
Sculpture
Creator Name:
Carpeaux, Jean-Baptiste
Creator Nationality:
European; French
Creator Role:
artist
Creator Dates/Places:
1827 - 1875
Gender:
M
Creator Name-CRT:
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux
Title:
Bust of a Lady (Fanny Coleman?)
Title Type:
Primary
View:
Full View
Creation Date:
1872
Creation Start Date:
1872
Creation End Date:
1872
Materials and Techniques:
marble
Classification Term:
Sculpture
Dimensions:
Overall: 83.2cm x 58.5cm x 39.4cm
AMICA Contributor:
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Owner Location:
Cleveland, Ohio, USA
ID Number:
1975.5
Credit Line:
John L. Severance Fund
Inscriptions:
inscribed on base: J. Bte CARPEAUX 1872.
Provenance:
Fanny Coleman (?), London; [Leon Helft, Paris]; David Weill, Paris; [Heim Gallery, Paris]
Context:
In designing his portrait busts, Carpeaux abandoned the strict frontality and symmetry of the neo-classic style and was instead inspired by French portrait busts of the late 17th and 18th centuries. From them Carpeaux borrowed a sense of animation and movement (suggested by a turn of the head and the arrangement of drapery), combined with realism in the depiction of surfaces and details of costume.
Related Image Identifier Link:
CMA_.AM20021495.tif
