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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:Minto1.jpg|thumb|right|200px|'''Earl of Minto''']]'''Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmond, 1st Earl of Minto''' (born [[Edinburgh]], [[Scotland]], [[23 April]] [[1751]] - died [[Stevenage]], [[England]], [[June 21]], [[1814]]) was a [[Scotland|Scottish]] [[politician]] and [[diplomat]]. |
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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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His great-grandfather the 1st Baronent Minto was also the ancestor of [[Robert Louis Stevenson]].{An indirect relation of the Earl of Mintos {by Marriage} was General [[Arthur St. Clair]]}.<br> |
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His uncle was [[John Elliott (governor)|John Elliott]], Governor of [[Newfoundland]]. |
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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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About [[1763]] '''Gilbert Elliot''' and his brother Hugh were sent to [[Paris]], where their studies were supervised by the renowned Scottish philosopher [[David Hume]], and where they became intimate with [[Honoré Mirabeau]]. Having passed the winters of [[1766]] and [[1767]] at the [[University of Edinburgh]], Gilbert entered [[Christ Church, Oxford]], and on quitting the university he was called to the bar. In [[1776]] he entered parliament as an independent [[British Whig Party|Whig]] MP for [[Morpeth (UK Parliament constituency)|Morpeth]]. He became very friendly with [[Edmund Burke]], whom he helped in the attack on [[Warren Hastings]] and [[Elijah Impey|Sir Elijah Impey]], and on two occasions was an unsuccessful candidate for the office of [[Speaker (politics)|Speaker]]. |
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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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In [[1794]] Elliot was appointed to govern [[Corsica]], and in [[1797]] he assumed the additional names of '''Murray-Kynynmond''' and was created '''Baron Minto'''. From [[1799]] to [[1801]] he was envoy-extraordinary to [[Vienna]], and having been for a few months president of the board of control he was appointed governor-general of [[India]] at the end of [[1806]]. He governed with great success until [[1813]], during which he expanded the British presence in the area to the [[Moluccas]], [[Java]], and other [[Netherlands|Dutch]] possessions in the East Indies during the Napoleonic Wars. He was then created '''Viscount Melgund''' and '''Earl of Minto'''. He died at Stevenage on 21 June 1814 and was buried in [[Westminster Abbey]]. His sister was the wife of [[William Eden, 1st Baron Auckland]]. His daughter Elinor married John Rutherfurd {1712-1758} of Edgerston. Elinor and John's son John {1748-1837} was married to Mary Anne Leslie-Melville daughter of Major General [[Alexander Leslie-Melville]]. A brother of John Rutherfurd of Edgarston was Walter Rutherfurd {1723-1804} who married Mary sister of [[Lord Stirling]] and who were the parents of Senator [[John Rutherfurd]]{1760-1840}. A nephew of Walter and John was John Rutherfurd of [[Mossburnford]] {b.1746-d.1830} who was captured during [[Pontiac's Rebellion]] of 1763; escaped and became a Captain in the [[Black Watch]]. |
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== Sculptures by Carpeaux == |
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The Earl's second son was [[Admiral Sir George Elliot]] (1784-1863), who as a youth was present at the [[Battle of Cape St Vincent]] and the [[Battle of the Nile]], and who was [[Secretary to the Admiralty]] from [[1830]] to [[1834]]. A nephew of the Earl was [[Sir Charles Elliot]] (1801-1875), also an admiral, who took a prominent part in the war with [[China]] in [[1840]]. Afterwards he was governor of [[Bermuda]], of [[Trinidad]] and of [[St Helena]]. |
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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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* 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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| years = 1776–1777 |
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| before = [[Peter Delme]]<br />[[William Byron]] |
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| after = [[Peter Delme]]<br />[[John Egerton, 7th Earl of Bridgewater|John Egerton]] |
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| title = [[Member of Parliament]] for [[Roxburghshire (UK Parliament constituency)|Roxburghshire]] |
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| years = 1777–1784 |
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| before = [[Gilbert Elliot (1722-1777)|Sir Gilbert Elliot]] |
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| after = [[George Douglas|Sir George Douglas]] |
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| title = [[Member of Parliament]] for [[Berwick (UK Parliament constituency)|Berwick]]<br />2-seat constituency<br /><small>(with [[John Vaughan]])</small> |
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| years = 1786–1790 |
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| before = [[John Vaughan]]<br />[[John Delaval, 1st Baron Delaval|John Delaval]] |
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| after = [[John Vaughan]]<br />[[Charles Carpenter]] |
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| title = [[Member of Parliament]] for [[Helston (UK Parliament constituency)|Helston]]<br />2-seat constituency<br /><small>(with [[Stephen Lushington]])</small> |
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| years = 1790–1795 |
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| before = [[Roger Wilbraham]]<br />[[James Bland Burges]] |
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| after = [[Stephen Lushington]]<br />[[Charles Abbot, 1st Baron Colchester|Charles Abbot]] |
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==Neapolitan Fisherboy== |
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== Reference == |
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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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Some years later, he carved the Girl with a Shell, a very similar study. |
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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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*[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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*[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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*[http://www.studiolo.org/MMA-Ugolino/Ugolino.htm A page analysing Carpeaux's ''Ugolino'', with numerous illustrations] |
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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