Le Chinois (Bust Of A Chinese Man, 2nd Version)
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux was one of the most prominent sculptors in nineteenth-century Europe. His artistic experience spanned across France, Italy and England, and many of his works can now be admired in world-leading public collections, such as the MET Museum, the Victoria & Albert Museum and the Musée d’Orsay.
Carpeaux was born in Valencienne in 1827 and moved early to Paris, where he trained first at the Petite École and then, from 1844, at the prestigious École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, studying under François Rude. He later left his master and started taking lessons with Francisque Duret, internalising both his studio practice and Romantic poetics.
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