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    Ugolino and his Children
    Jean Baptiste Carpeaux. Ugolino and his Children, 1863–65. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00001843

    Ugolino and his Children

    by Jean Baptiste Carpeaux

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago

    Provenance

    Private collection, Paris [according to original dealer solicitation and letter from Ay-Whang Hsia to Brandon Ruud, October 21, 2002, in curatorial file]. Wildenstein and Company, New York, by 1971; sold to the Art Institute, 1971.

    Exhibition history

    Art Institute of Chicago, "Small Bronzes from Chicago Collections," 22 July - 3 October 1972 [no cat.].

    Publications

    Paris, Hôtel Drouot, Catalogue des tableaux, dessins, esquisses et marbres par Carpeaux (May 30, 1894), lot 543. Frances A. Yates, "Transformations of Dante's Ugolino," Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 13 (1950), p. 117, fig. 22b. Cambridge, Mass., Fogg Art Museum, Metamorphoses in Nineteenth-Century Sculpture (1975), p. 123, figs. 14-15a. Jeremy Cooper, Nineteenth-Century Romantic Bronzes: French, English and American Bronzes, 1830-1915 (New York, 1975), pp. 29, 73, ill. opp. p. 73. Paris, Grand Palais, Sur les traces de Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (March 11 - May 5, 1975), p. 89, no. 82. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Romantics to Rodin: French Nineteenth-Century Sculpture from North American Collections (1980), pp. 146-48, nos. 31 and 32. Nice, Galerie des Ponchettes, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, 1827-1875: sculptures, peintrues, dessins (1980), no. 14. Claude Jeancolas, Carpeaux: La farouche volonté d'etre (Lausanne, 1987), p. 72. Michel Poletti and Alain Richarme, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, sculpteur: catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre édité (Paris, 2003), pp. 71-73.

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    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Jean Baptiste Carpeaux (French, 1827–1875)
    Date
    1863–65
    Medium
    Bronze
    Dimensions
    48.9 × 37.2 × 22.9 cm (19 1/4 × 14 5/8 × 9 in.)
    Type
    Sculpture
    Classification
    statuette
    Style
    nineteenth century
    Place
    France
    Department
    Painting and Sculpture of Europe
    Credit line
    Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. Samuel G. Rautbord
    Accession no.
    1971.21

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