Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux
(1827–1875) French sculptor and painter (1827–1875)
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (France, 1827–1875) is listed in the catalogue as a painter, a sculptor, and a draughtsman. By year of birth, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux belongs to the chapter ‘Realism’ in this site’s history of art.
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux was born in Valenciennes and died in Courbevoie. Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux trained at Beaux-Arts de Paris, École supérieure d'art et de design de Valenciennes, and French Academy in Rome. The teachers included René Fache and Jean Baptiste Bernard. Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux worked in Paris, Florence, and London. Wikidata associates Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux with Romanticism. Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux was awarded Prix de Rome. The students included Joseph Osbach, Pierre Marie François Ogé, Amand Pierre Harel, and Valérie Simonin.
The best-known works include ‘buste of Charles Garnier’, ‘Ugolin entouré de ses quatre enfants’, ‘The Negress’, and ‘Pourquoi naître esclave ?’. The works belong mainly to the genre portrait. The catalogue has 43 works by Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux with free images. The dated works span the years 1850–1902. Works by Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux are held by several collections, among them Musée d’Orsay, National Museum in Warsaw, Sculptures in the National Gallery of Art, and Nationalmuseum. Wikidata links 4 works to movements covered in the chapter ‘Realism’.
Contemporary artists in the same chapter include Léon Belly, Ludwig Angerer, Peter Bernhard Wilhelm Heine, Alfred Grévin, and Emil Hünten.