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    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    Portrait Bust of Comtesse d'Affry, née Lucie de Maillardoz (1816-1897)
    Jean Baptiste Carpeaux. Portrait Bust of Comtesse d'Affry, née Lucie de Maillardoz (1816-1897), 1860–70. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00001844

    Portrait Bust of Comtesse d'Affry, née Lucie de Maillardoz (1816-1897)

    by Jean Baptiste Carpeaux

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago

    Inscriptions

    Inscribed: J.B. Carpeaux (back of lower left shoulder in incised script)

    Provenance

    Private collection, Paris [according to original dealer solicitation in curatorial file]. Heim Gallery, London, by 1972; sold to the Art Institute, 1972.

    Exhibition history

    Art Institute of Chicago, "The Antiquarian Society of the Art Institute of Chicago: The First One Hundred Years," 23 April – 19 June 1977, no. 119. Art Institute of Chicago, "European Portraits, 1600–1900, in the Art Institute of Chicago," 8 July - 11 September 1978, no. 40. Philadelphia Museum of Art, "The Second Empire, 1852-1870," 1 October - 26 November 1978, Detroit Institute of Arts, 15 January - 18 March 1979, and the Grand Palais, Paris, 24 April - 2 July 1979, no. V-5 (ill).

    Publications

    Art Institute of Chicago, Annual Report of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1972–73, pp. 12, 43 (ill.). Dirk Kocks, “L’Art en France sous le second empire: Ausstellung im Grand Palais, Paris, 12.5–13.8.1979,” Kunstchronik 32, 10 (October 1979), p. 331. Dirk Kocks, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux: Rezeption und Originalität (Sankt Augustin, Germany, 1981), pp. 25–26, 144 n. 83, fig. 37. For comparison, see: Victor Beyer, Sur les traces de Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, exh. cat. (Paris: Éditions des Musées Nationaux, 1975), nos. 89-91.

    Open-access museum data

    This record comes from the open-access collection data that the Art Institute of Chicago publishes for unrestricted use (Creative Commons Zero). Art Trackers shows a selection of the museum's published fields. The Art Institute of Chicago is not an Art Trackers client and has not reviewed or endorsed this page; the museum's own website is the authoritative record.

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    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Jean Baptiste Carpeaux (French, 1827–1875)
    Date
    1860–70
    Medium
    Plaster
    Dimensions
    54.6 × 48.9 × 33.9 cm (26 1/2 × 19 1/4 × 13 1/4 in.)
    Type
    Sculpture
    Classification
    bust/head
    Style
    nineteenth century
    Place
    France
    Department
    Painting and Sculpture of Europe
    Credit line
    Gift of The Antiquarian Society
    Accession no.
    1972.1168

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