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Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (1827-1875)

  • News Items : A Bust of Dumas the Younger by Carpeaux Acquired by the Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute 21/03/2014

    The sculpture stand occupied at TEFAF by David and Constance Yates in association with Trebosc & van Lelyveld always offers the highest quality. The Sterling & Francine Clark Institute made no mistake in choosing them to purchase a (...)

    Lire la suite par Didier Rykner

  • News Items : Some 19th century Sculptures Acquired by the Metropolitan Museum 29/08/2013

    Several late 19th century sculptures, most of them French, joined the collections at the Metropolitan in 2012 and 2013. Three profiles stand out in this ensemble, each in a different material. Purchased in 2013 by Eugene V. Thaw from the (...)

    Lire la suite par Bénédicte Bonnet Saint-Georges

  • News Items : Carpeaux’s Ugolin in Compiègne Restored 27/05/2013

    The Musée du Second Empire at the château in Compiègne owns several works by Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, including a large plaster sculpture representing the group of Ugolino, surrounded by his children. The subject, drawn from Canto XXXIII of Dante's (...)

    Lire la suite par Didier Rykner

  • News Items : Recent Acquisitions at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Valenciennes 03/04/2013

    Since our last article highlighting acquisitions at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Valenciennes, the museum has added several more important works, thanks to both donations and purchases. The Carpeaux holdings have thus expanded with a drawing (...)

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  • Exhibitions : Michelangelo in the Age of Carpeaux 23/05/2012

    As if a reminder were needed, the importance of Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux's graphic work, long overshadowed by his sculpture, is once again center stage at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Valenciennes, the artist's hometown. After "Daumier-Carpeaux : (...)

    Lire la suite par Julie Demarle

  • News Items : Neo-Classicism and the 19th century Highlighted in Parisian Galleries 28/03/2012

    Since 2011, the exhibition which Talabardon & Gautier offer annually takes place in March, instead of in the autumn. Except for this modification in dates, the tradition has not changed otherwise : the publication of a beautiful and well (...)

    Lire la suite par Didier Rykner

  • News Items : A Painting and Two Sculptures by Carpeaux Acquired by Valenciennes at the Fabius Auction 27/10/2011

    The Musée des Beaux-Arts in Valenciennes purchased, without preemptions, three works by Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux at the Fabius auction, thus consolidating its already extensive holdings of the artist. The most important of these purchases is a (...)

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  • News Items : Latest Acquisitions by the Clark Institute 26/10/2011

    Pursuing a dynamic acquisitions policy over the last four years, the Clark Institute has enriched its collections with art objects, sculptures, drawings and paintings. First off, in ceramics, a cup and saucer in hard-paste porcelain (acquired in (...)

    Lire la suite par Bénédicte Bonnet Saint-Georges

  • News Items : The Fabius Gallery to auction off its holdings 17/03/2011

    The Galerie Fabius Frères was founded by Elie Fabiu, one of the most important antique dealers in the early 20th century. It was then taken over by his three sons, finally by his grand-son François Fabius who had worked with them for a long time. (...)

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  • News Items : Acquisitions for the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Valenciennes 30/06/2010

    Some museums, despite particularly low acquisition budgets, at times manage to make purchases or else receive donations, thus continuing to enrich their collections, albeit in a modest way. We have not yet mentioned (except perhaps on one (...)

    Lire la suite par Didier Rykner