Portrait Bust of Charles Garnier (1825–1898)

Artist: Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (French, 1827–1875)

1868–69

European Art

By appointment, Wurtele Study Center
Medium

Plaster

Dimensions

18 × 12 1/2 × 7 1/2 in. (45.7 × 31.8 × 19 cm)

Credit Line

Director's Purchase Fund

Accession Number

1967.32

Culture

French

Period

19th century

Classification

Sculpture

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Provenance
Atelier of Courbevoie, Paris; Consuelo Fould Collection; Galerie Hector Brame, Paris (purchased as original, unpublished cast).
Bibliography
  • Gazette des Beaux Arts (1969), 78
  • Ruth Davidson, "Museum Accessions," Antiques (August 1968), 180
  • "Recent Gifts and Purchases," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin 32, no. 1 (Spring 1968), 25
  • Louise Clement-Carpeaux, La vérité sur l'oeuvre et la vie de J.-B. Carpeaux (1827-1875) (Paris: Dousset et Bigerelle, 1934-1935), 231–295
  • Ernest Chesneau, Statuaire J.-B. Carpeaux, sa vie et son oeuvre (Paris: A. Quantin, 1880), 130
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

busts (sculpture), human figures (visual works), portraits

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