Property of a North American Collector
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux
Jeune Fille à la Coquille and Pêcheur à la Coquille
Estimate
1,500,000 - 2,500,000 USD
Lot Details
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Property of a North American Collector
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux
Valenciennes 1827 - 1875 Courbevoie
Jeune Fille à la Coquille and Pêcheur à la Coquille
both sculptures signed and dated JB.TE CARPEAUX 1873; on richly carved oak pedestals decorated with fruits and volutes also signed and dated J.BTE CARPEAUX 1873
marble, with signed wooden pedestals
heights of sculptures: 38 ½ in. and 37 ⅝ in.; 98 cm and 96 cm
dimensions of bases: 40 ½ in. by 20 ½ in. by 23 ¼ in.; 103 cm by 52 cm by 59 cm
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux's sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 21 December 1873, lots 1 and 2;
Lord Mildmay of Fleet, Grande-Bretagne;
Fabius Frères, Paris;
Their sale, Paris, Sotheby's, 26 - 27 October 2011, lot 48;
With Daniel Katz, London, February 2013;
From whom acquired.
Vienna, Expositions Internationales, Section française, 1873;
Paris, Petit Palais, J.-B. Carpeaux 1827-1875, Paris, 1955-1956, no. 14 and no. 90 ;
Paris, Musée Jacquemart-André, Le second Empire de Winterhalter à Renoir, Paris, May- June 1957, no. 298 and no. 299;
Paris, Grand Palais, Sur les traces de Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, 11 March-5 May 1975, no. 4 and no. 45 (reproduced);
Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada, on loan, February 2013 - May 2023;
Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario, on loan, May 2023 - present.
C. Jeancolas, Carpeaux La Farouche Volonté d'Etre, Paris 1987, pp. 52 and 93 (reproduced);
S. Glover Lindsay, European Sculpture of the Nineteenth Century. The collection of the National Gallery of Art Washington, New York and Oxford 2000, pp. 65-79 fig. 6 (reproduced);
M. Poletti and A. Richarme, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, Sculpteur. Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre édité, Paris 2003, pp. 60 and 63.
J.D. Draper and E. Papet in The Passions of Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, exhibition catalogue, London and New Haven 2014, p. 337, no. 21.
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