Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00001793France Lighting the World
Inscriptions
Signed: Bte Carpeaux (right side of base)
Provenance
Commissioned by H. Lefuel for the south facade of the Pavillon de Flore, Tuileries Palace, Paris, 1863; models completed 1865 and in Carpeaux's studio until 1913; sold, the artist's atelier sale, Galerie Manzi-Joyant, 15 rue de la Ville-l'Éveque, Paris, December 8-9, 1913, lot 106, to Nelson for 2000 francs [according to Gazette de l'Hotel Drouot]. Consigned to Gallery Hector Brame, Paris, September 1955 [according to letter from Sylvie Brame to Brandon Ruud, November 24, 2004, copy in curatorial file; see also 1955-56 Paris exh. cat.]; sold by Hector Brame and César de Hauke to the Art Institute, 1957.
Exhibition history
Paris, Petit Palais, "J. B. Carpeaux, 1827–1875," 1955-1956, no. 89. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, "The Romantics to Rodin: French Nineteenth-Century Sculpture from American Collections," 28 February – 25 May 1980, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 25 June – 21 September 1980, Detroit Institute of Arts, 27 October 1980 – 4 January 1981, and the Indianapolis Museum of Art, 22 February – 29 April 1981, nos. 36-38.
Publications
Ernest Chesneau, Le Statuaire J.–B. Carpeaux: sa vie et son oeuvre (Paris, 1880), pp. 102–08. Paul Vitry, Carpeaux (Paris, 1912), pp. 67-68. “Sur des ventes: Atelier Carpeaux,” Gazette de l’hôtel Drouot 130 (December 10, 1913), p. 1. André M. de Poncheville, Carpeaux (Paris, 1925), pp. 75–78. Christiane Aulanier, Le Pavillon de flore, Histoire du palais et du musée du louvre 10 (Paris, 1971), p. 85, fig. 93. Paris, Grand Palais, Sur le traces de Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (1975), nos. 251-53. Nice, Galerie des Ponchettes, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, 1827–1875: sculptures, peintures, dessins (1980), no. 28. Musée d’Orsay, Catalogue sommaire illustré des sculptures (Paris, 1986), pp. 80–81. Claude Jeancolas, Carpeaux: La Farouche volonté d’être (Lausanne, 1987), pp. 85–87 (ill.). Michel Poletti and Alain Richarme, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, scupltuer: catalogue raisonné de l’oeuvre édité (Paris, 2003), p. 162.
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Jean Baptiste Carpeaux (French, 1827-1875)
- Date
- 1865
- Medium
- Plaster
- Dimensions
- 36.5 × 31 cm (14 3/8 × 12 3/16 in.)
- Type
- Sculpture
- Classification
- statuette
- Style
- nineteenth century
- Place
- France
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Credit line
- Ada Turnbull Hertle Endowment
- Accession no.
- 1957.245
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