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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]] |
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[[Image:Jean-Baptiste_Carpeaux_La_Danse.jpg|thumb|right|400px|La Danse (The Dance), Opera Garnier in Paris]] |
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| subject_name = Guy de Rothschild |
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| date_of_birth = {{birth date|1909|5|21}} |
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| place_of_birth = {{flagicon|France}} [[Paris]], [[France]] |
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| date_of_death = {{death date and age|2007|6|12|1909|5|21}} |
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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. |
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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. |
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'''Baron Guy Édouard Alphonse Paul de Rothschild''' ([[May 21]], [[1909]] – [[June 12]], [[2007]]) was a French banker and member of the [[Rothschild family]]. He chaired the [[de Rothschild Frères]] bank from 1967 to 1979 and maintained possessions in other French and foreign companies including [[Imerys]]. |
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== Sculptures by Carpeaux == |
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==Family== |
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Guy de Rothschild was born in Paris, the son of the Baron [[Edouard Alphonse de Rothschild|Édouard de Rothschild]] (1868–1949) and the Baroness Germaine Halphen (1884–1975). Half of his great-grandparents were Rothschilds. He was a great-great grandson of [[Mayer Amschel Rothschild]] (1743-1812), who founded the family's banking in the 18th centuty. He grew up at his parents' townhouse on the corner of the [[rue de Rivoli]] and the [[Place de la Concorde]] in Paris (a property once occupied by [[Talleyrand]]) and their country estate at [[Château de Ferrières]], 25 miles north-east of Paris, a massive house built to a design by [[Joseph Paxton]] in the 1850s, based on Paxton's earlier design of [[Mentmore Towers]] for [[Baron Mayer de Rothschild]] of the English branch of the Rothschild family. Guy de Rothschild later gave Château de Ferrières to the [[University of Paris]] in 1975. |
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* 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]] |
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He was educated at the [[lycée Condorcet]] and and [[lycée Louis-le-Grand]] in Paris, and by private tutors. He undertook military service with the cavalry at [[Saumur]], and played [[golf]] for France. |
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* The Dance (commissioned for the [[Palais Garnier|Opera Garnier]]) |
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* Jeune pêcheur à la coquille - [[Naples|Neapolitan]] Fisherboy - in the [[Louvre]], [[Paris]] [[http://www.insecula.com/oeuvre/photo_ME0000034255.html]] |
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* Girl with Shell |
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* [[Antoine Watteau]] monument, [[Valenciennes]] |
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==Neapolitan Fisherboy== |
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He married twice, and has two sons. He married Alix Schey de Koromla (1911–1982) in 1937, having a son, [[David René de Rothschild]]. They divorced in 1956. He married a second time in 1957, to [[Marie-Hélène de Rothschild|Marie-Hélène van Zuylen van Nyevelt]] (1927–1996), with whom he also had a son, [[Édouard de Rothschild]]. |
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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.]] |
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==Banking and business== |
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He began working for the family bank in 1931, joining the executive board of the family's [[Compagnie du Chemin de Fer du Nord]] in 1933. During [[World War II]], he was a company commander in the 3rd Light Mechanised Division. After fighting the Nazis at [[Carvin]], he retreated to [[Dunkirk]]. He was awarded the [[Croix de Guerre]] for his actions on the beaches at Dunkirk, from where he was evactuated to England. He immediately returned to France, landing at [[Brest]], and taking charge of the family's office at [[La Bourbole]], near [[Clermont-Ferrand]]. Under the Fascist [[Vichy]] government, his father and uncles were stripped of their French nationality, removed from the register of the [[Légion d'honneur]], and the family was forced to sell its possessions. Rothschild left France again, via Spain and Portugal, to join his parent in New York. He joined the [[Free French Forces]] and boarded the cargo ship, ''Pacific Grove'', to travel back to Europe. His ship was torpedoed and sunk in March 1943, and he was rescued after spending 12 hours in the Atlantic. In England, he joined the staff of General Koenig at [[Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force]] near Portsmouth. |
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Some years later, he carved the Girl with a Shell, a very similar study. |
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He returned to the bank's offices at [[rue Laffitte]] in Paris in 1944, and reconstructed the Rothschild banking and business empire after the war. [[George Pompidou]] who would later become [[President of France|President]] and [[Prime Minister of France]], was recruited by him from a job as a teacher, and worked for him from 1953 to 1962, during which time he became the general manager of the Rothschild bank. The bank diversified, from investment management under De Rothschild Frères to the deposit-taking Banque de Rothschild, with branches throughout France. When the bank was nationalized in [[1981]] by the socialist government of [[François Mitterrand|Mitterrand]], Rothschild left France in anger and moved temporarily to [[New York]]. In [[1987]] the family banking business was restored as [[Rothschild & Cie Banque]] by his son David. |
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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]]. |
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==Horsebreeding== |
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Guy de Rothschild is a renowned horsebreeder as the family owns [[Haras de Meautry]] in [[Normandy]]. He has produced prominent [[race horse]]s, the most famous perhaps [[Exbury (horse)|Exbury]], which won the [[Prix Boïard]], the [[Prix Ganay]], the [[Coronation Cup]], the [[Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud]], and [[Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe]] in 1963. |
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In 1950, he won the [[Grand Prix de Paris]] with Vieux Manoir, the [[Grand Prix de St Cloud]] with Ocarina, and the [[Grand Prix de Deauville]] with Alizier. As owner, he also won among others, the [[Prix de Diane]] three times (1957, 1960, 1961), the [[Prix Royal-Oak]] twice, and the [[Prix Morny]] twice. Guy de Rothschild chaired the association of racehorse breeders in France of 1975 to 1982. |
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*[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)] |
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==Philanthropy== |
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*[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) |
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In [[1950]], Guy de Rothschild became the first president of the [[Fonds Social Juif Unifié]] (FSJU) (United Jewish Welfare Fund), the major French philanthropic agency for the Jewish community. |
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*[http://www.studiolo.org/MMA-Ugolino/Ugolino.htm A page analysing Carpeaux's ''Ugolino'', with numerous illustrations] |
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[[Category:French sculptors|Carpeaux, Jean-Baptiste]] |
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In [[1975]] Rothschild and his wife donated the [[Château de Ferrières]] to the [[University of Paris]]. |
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==Works== |
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* ''The Whims of Fortune: The Memoirs of Guy de Rothschild'' by Guy de Rothschild. [[Random House]] (1985) ISBN 0-394-54054-9 / ''Contre bonne fortune'' (French) by Guy de Rothschild. Belfond (1983). ISBN 2714415504, ISBN 978-2714415509 |
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* ''The relationship between business and government in France (Benjamin F. Fairless memorial lectures)'' by Guy de Rothschild. Carnegie-Mellon University press (1983). ASIN: B0006YDWD2 |
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* ''Le fantôme de Léa: Roman'' (French) by Guy de Rothschild. Plon (1998). ISBN 225918863X, ISBN 978-2259188630 |
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* ''Mon ombre siamoise'' (French) by Guy de Rothschild. Grasset (1993). ISBN 2246470714, ISBN 978-2246470717 |
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[[zh:让-巴蒂斯·卡尔波]] |
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==References== |
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* [http://www.busrep.co.za/index.php?fSectionId=&fArticleId=5017203 Head of French banking family dies] |
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* [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=V0KMOITWYFSNZQFIQMGSFF4AVCBQWIV0?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/news/2007/06/14/db1401.xml Obituary], ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'', [[14 June]] [[2007]] |
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== See also == |
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* [[Rothschild banking family of France]] |
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* [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=990DE5DB173BF936A35756C0A963948260 Book review by New York Times: The Whims of Fortune. The Memoirs of Guy de Rothschild] |
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* [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,938990-10,00.html "New Elan in an Old Clan" TIME Magazine cover story 12-20-1963] |
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Revision as of 01:07, 19 June 2007
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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