Le Prince Impérial et son chien ܫNéro n° 2 (The Imperial Prince and his D𝄹og, Nero)
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Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux
1827 - 1875
Le Prince Impérial et son chien Néro n° 2 (The Imperial Prince and his Dog, Nero)
terracotta group
signed and dated JB CARPEAUX/TUILERIES.1865, inscribed S.A.LE.PRINCE IMPERIAL, stamped PROPRIÉTÉ CARPEAUX with the Imperial Eagle
66 cm ; 26 in.
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Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux
1827 - 1875
Le Prince Impérial et son chien Néro (n° 2)
groupe en terre cuite
signé et daté JB CARPEAUX/TUILERIES.1865, inscrit S.A.LE.PRINCE IMPERIAL, cachet PROPRIÉTÉ CARPEAUX à l'Aigle impériale
66 cm ; 26 in.
Sculpture Passion, exh. cat. Monaco, Salle des Arts du Sporting d’Hiver, 24 March – 16 April 1990, cat♔. 42, p. 44 (ill. p. 43)༺;
J. Ginepro, « Carpeaux, Le Précurseur », l’Estampille, July-August 1983, no. 159-ꦰ160, pp. 68-105 (ilꦺl. p. 90).
Related Literature
M. Poletti, A. Richarme, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux sculpteur : catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre édité, Paris, 2003, pp. 66-67, SA 16.
E. Papet, J. D. Draper, Carpeaux 1827-1875, Un sculpteur pour l’Empire, exh. cat. Par൲is, Musée d’Orsay, 2014, pp. 110-119.
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Sculpture Passion, cat. exp. Monaco, Salle des Arts du Sporting d’Hiver, 24 mars– 16 avril 1🦄990, cat. 42, p. 44 (ill. p. 43) :
J. Ginepro, « Carpeaux, Le Précurseur », l’Estampille,&nb𝓡sp;juillet-août 1983, n° 159-160, pp. 68-105 (ill. p. 90).
Référence bibliographique
M. Poletti, A. Richarme, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux sculpteur : catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre édité, Paris, 2003, pp. 66-67, SA 16.
E. Papet, J. D. Draper, Carpeaux 1827-1875, Un sculpteur pour l’Empire, cat🐈. exp. Paris, Musée d’Orsay, 2014, pp. 110-119.
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, after training in Paris under François Rude at the Éco𓆉le des Beaux Arts, became the official sculptor of Napoleon III (1808-1873). He worked on buildings such as the Louvre in 1864, on Palais Garnier in 1865 and on the fountain of the Jardin du Luxembourg in 1872.
The Prince Imperial et son chien Néro is one of Carpeaux’s most renowned models as official sculptor of the Second Empire. At the time, Carpeaux commissioned the Barbédienne foundry🌸 to create four small bronze models of Napoleon III and his family, including the model of his son with his dog Néro. The sculptures, however, stopped being produced in 1869, when Napoleon III’s administration attained reproduction rights for all the figures of the young prince and his family. After the fall of the Empire, Carpeaux returned to the production of the model, mostly in terracotta
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