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Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (May 11, 1827, Valenciennes –October 12, 1875, Courbevoie) was a French sculptor and painter. His early studies were under François Rude. Carpeaux won the Prix de Rome in 1854, and moving to Rome to find inspiration, he there studied the works of Michelangelo, Donatello and Verrocchio. Staying in Rome from 1854 to 1861, he obtained a taste for movement and spontaneity, which he joined with the great principles of baroque art. In 1861 he made a bust of Princess Mathilde, and this later brought him several commissions from Napoleon III. He worked at the pavilion of Flora, and the Opéra Garnier. His group La Danse (the Dance, 1869), situated on the right side of the façade, was criticised as an offence to common decency.

He never managed to finish his last work, the famous Fountain of the Four Parts of the Earth, on the Place Camille Jullian. He did finish the terrestrial globe, supported by the four figures of Asia, Europe, America and Africa, and it was Emmanuel Frémiet who completed the work by adding the eight leaping horses, the tortoises and the dolphins of the basin.

Sculptures by Carpeaux

Ugolin et ses fils - Ugolino and his Sons (1861, in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art)[[1]] with versions in other museums including the Musée d'Orsay
The Dance (commissioned for the Opera Garnier)
Jeune pêcheur à la coquille - Neapolitan Fisherboy - in the Louvre, Paris [[2]]
Girl with Shell
Antoine Watteau monument, Valenciennes

Neapolitan Fisherboy

Carpeaux submitted a plaster version of Pêcheur napolitain à la coquille, the Neapolitan Fisherboy, to the French Academy while a student in Rome. He carved the marble version several years later, showing it in the Salon exhibition of 1863. It was purchased for Napoleon III's empress, Eugènie. The statue of the young smiling boy was very popular, and Carpeaux created a number of reproductions and variations in marble and bronze. There is a copy, for instance, in the Samuel H. Kress Collection in the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C.

Some years later, he carved the Girl with a Shell, a very similar study.

Carpeaux sought real life subjects in the streets and broke with the classical tradition. The Neapolitan Fisherboy's body is carved in intimate detail and shows an intricately balanced pose. Carpeaux claimed that he based the Neapolitan Fisherboy on a boy he had seen during a trip to Naples.

External links

A page on the official Louvre site giving access to some of Carpeaux's works (French language only)
A page from insecula.com listing more views of Carpeaux's works (also in French; it may be necessary to close an advertising window to view this page)
A page analysing Carpeaux's Ugolino, with numerous illustrations

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+[[Image:Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux's marble sculpture 'Ugolino and his Sons', Metropolitan Museum of Art.jpg|thumb|right|400px|Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux's marble sculpture 'Ugolino and his Sons', Metropolitan Museum of Art]]
-'''Lillian Roth''' ([[December 13]], [[1910]] - [[May 12]], [[1980]]) was an [[United States|American]] [[singer]] and [[actress]].
+[[Image:Jean-Baptiste_Carpeaux_La_Danse.jpg|thumb|right|400px|La Danse (The Dance), Opera Garnier in Paris]]
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+'''Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux''' ([[May 11]], [[1827]], [[Valenciennes]] –[[October 12]], [[1875]], [[Courbevoie]]) was a French sculptor and painter. His early studies were under [[François Rude]]. Carpeaux won the [[Prix de Rome]] in [[1854]], and moving to [[Rome]] to find inspiration, he there studied the works of [[Michelangelo Buonarroti|Michelangelo]], [[Donatello]] and [[Andrea del Verrocchio|Verrocchio]]. Staying in Rome from [[1854]] to [[1861]], he obtained a taste for movement and spontaneity, which he joined with the great principles of [[baroque art]]. In [[1861]] he made a bust of [[Mathilde Bonaparte|Princess Mathilde]], and this later brought him several commissions from [[Napoleon III]]. He worked at the pavilion of [[Flora (goddess)|Flora]], and the [[Opéra Garnier]]. His group La Danse (the Dance, [[1869]]), situated on the right side of the façade, was criticised as an offence to common decency.
-Born Lillian Rutstein in [[Boston]], Massachusetts, she was merely six-years-old when her mother took her to [[Educational Pictures]], where she became the company's trademark, symbolized by a living statue holding a lamp of knowledge. The following year she made her [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] debut in ''The Inner Man''. Her motion picture debut came in 1918 in ''Pershing's Crusaders''. Together with her sister Ann she toured as "Lillian Roth and Co." At times the two were billed as "The Roth Kids." One of the most exciting moments for her came when she met President [[Woodrow Wilson]].
+He never managed to finish his last work, the famous Fountain of the Four Parts of the Earth, on the Place Camille Jullian. He did finish the terrestrial globe, supported by the four figures of [[Asia]], [[Europe]], [[North America|America]] and [[Africa]], and it was [[Emmanuel Frémiet]] who completed the work by adding the eight leaping horses, the tortoises and the dolphins of the basin.
-Roth entered the Clark School of Concentration in the early 1920s. She appeared in ''Artists and Models'' in 1923 and went on to make ''Revels'' with [[Frank Fay]]. During production for the former show, she told management she was nineteen years of age. When she was seventeen, the youth made the first of three ''Earl Carroll Vanities'' with Ray Dooley. This was soon followed by ''Midnight Frolics'', a [[Flo Ziegfeld]] production.
+== Sculptures by Carpeaux ==
-Soon the young actress signed a seven-year contract with [[Paramount Pictures]]. Among the films she made for Paramount were ''[[The Love Parade]]'' (1929) with [[Maurice Chevalier]], ''Paramount On Parade'' (1930), ''[[Honey]]'' (1930), in which she sang "Sing You Sinners," ''[[Madam Satan]]'' (1930) with [[Reginald Denny]], and the classic comedy ''[[Animal Crackers (film)|Animal Crackers]]'' (1930) with the [[Marx Brothers]]. She made occasional films for other studios, such as the women's prison film ''Ladies They Talk About'' ([[Warner Brothers]], 1933) with [[Barbara Stanwyck]].
-In 1930, Roth left Paramount to go out on her own. She played the [[Palace Theatre, New York|Palace Theatre]] in [[New York City]] and performed in the ''Earl Carroll Vanities'' in 1928, 1931, and 1932. She continued to make strides as a singer in an era when so much was being set to music.
+* Ugolin et ses fils - [[Ugolino della Gherardesca|Ugolino]] and his Sons (1861, in the permanent collection of the [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]])[[http://www.insecula.com/oeuvre/photo_ME0000009025.html]] with versions in other museums including the [[Musée d'Orsay]]
-Unfortunately, her personal life was increasingly overshadowed by her addiction to alcohol. Although her parents were not stereotypical stage parents, as a response to their influence Roth came to rely too much on other people. In her books and interviews, she said she was too trusting of husbands who made key decisions concerning her money and contracts.
+* The Dance (commissioned for the [[Palais Garnier|Opera Garnier]])
+* Jeune pêcheur à la coquille - [[Naples|Neapolitan]] Fisherboy - in the [[Louvre]], [[Paris]] [[http://www.insecula.com/oeuvre/photo_ME0000034255.html]]
+* Girl with Shell
+* [[Antoine Watteau]] monument, [[Valenciennes]]
+==Neapolitan Fisherboy==
-Roth was out of the limelight from the late 1930s until 1953 when she appeared on ''[[This Is Your Life]]'' with [[Ralph Edwards]]. In response to her honesty in relating her story of alcoholism, she received more than forty thousand letters.
+Carpeaux submitted a plaster version of ''Pêcheur napolitain à la coquille'', the Neapolitan Fisherboy, to the [[French Academy]] while a student in [[Rome]]. He carved the marble version several years later, showing it in the Salon exhibition of 1863. It was purchased for [[Napoleon III]]'s empress, [[Eugénie de Montijo|Eugènie]]. The statue of the young smiling boy was very popular, and Carpeaux created a number of reproductions and variations in marble and bronze. There is a copy, for instance, in the Samuel H. Kress Collection in the [[National Gallery of Art]] in [[Washington D.C.]]
-Her theme song, which she began singing as a child performer, was "When the Red Red Robin Comes Bob-Bob-Bobbin' Along."
+Some years later, he carved the Girl with a Shell, a very similar study.
-Roth's sensational [[autobiography]] ''[[I'll Cry Tomorrow]]'' was made into a hit film starring [[Susan Hayward]]. The book became a bestseller worldwide and sold more than seven million copies in twenty languages, and the film renewed the public's interest in her. In 1958, Roth published a second book, ''Beyond My Worth'', which was not as successful as its predecessor.
+Carpeaux sought real life subjects in the streets and broke with the classical tradition.  The Neapolitan Fisherboy's body is carved in intimate detail and shows an intricately balanced pose. Carpeaux claimed that he based the Neapolitan Fisherboy on a boy he had seen during a trip to [[Naples]].
-Roth sufficiently recovered to re-invent herself as a concert and nightclub performer. She appeared at venues in [[Las Vegas]], and was a popular attraction in [[Australia]]. In 1962, she was featured in the Broadway musical ''[[I Can Get It for You Wholesale]]'', but most of the reviews focused on a newcomer in the cast named [[Barbra Streisand]]. Roth had begun drinking again but remained with the show for 301 performances. She was also featured in the touring company of ''[[Funny Girl]]'' in 1964.
+==External links==
-Roth was married a number of times. Among her husbands were aviator William C. Scott, David Lyons, Air Force Cadet Willie Richards, Judge Benjamin Shalleck, Eugene J. Weiner, Edward Goldman, and Mark Harris. Lyons and Scott both died and she was divorced from the last five. In 1955 she met Thomas Burt McGuire, scion of [[Funk and Wagnalls]] Publishing Company at an [[Alcoholics Anonymous]] meeting. Lillian first joined A.A. in 1946. The two were married and McGuire managed Roth until September 1963. At this time she received a note from him stating that their marriage was finished. According to Roth, he left her penniless after withdrawing all funds from their joint bank account.
+*[http://cartelfr.louvre.fr/cartelfr/visite?srv=rs_display_res&critere=jean+baptiste+carpeaux&operator=AND&nbToDisplay=5&langue=fr A page on the official Louvre site giving access to some of Carpeaux's works (French language only)]
-In 1970, Lillian Roth was sharing a penthouse on Manhattan's West Fifty-Eighth Street. Her fellow occupants were another woman, three poodles, a police dog, a chihuahua, and three dachsunds. She wanted to act and sing again. Her most recent employment included work as a bakery employee, hospital attendant, and a package wrapper. A year later, she returned to Broadway in the [[Kander and Ebb]] musical ''[[70, Girls, 70]]''.
+*[http://www.insecula.com/contact/A005511_oeuvre_1.html A page from insecula.com listing more views of Carpeaux's works (also in French;] it may be necessary to close an advertising window to view this page)
+*[http://www.studiolo.org/MMA-Ugolino/Ugolino.htm A page analysing Carpeaux's ''Ugolino'', with numerous illustrations]
-==Reference==
-''Whatever Became of...?'', Vol. III, 1970, The World Almanac 1966, Published by the New York World Telegram and The Sun.
-==External links==
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