France Lighting the World

1. 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.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• 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.

• 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.

Allegory of Science

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Allegory of Agriculture

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Ugolino and his Children

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

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Back View of Seated Figure, Lifting Left Arm

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Study for the Sculpture Ugolino and His Children

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Sketch of Nude Woman Having Her Hair Groomed and Groups of Figures (recto); Sketches of Riding Figure and Nude Figures (verso)

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Five Dancing Female Figures

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