The Dance [plaster maquette]
Carpeaux, Jean-Baptiste
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Alternative Title
La Danse [plaster maquette]
Date
1865-1866Description
Plaster maquette, overall view from front; The architect of the Opéra, Charles Garnier, Carpeaux’s friend from the Petite Ecole, suggested that Carpeaux should sculpt a group depicting the Dance of Bacchus for the main façade of the Opéra "in the spirit of the Arc de Triomphe" (Carpeaux to his friend Dutouquet, 25 December 1863). After some experimentation, he decided upon the subject of The Dance (1866; Paris, Mus. d’Orsay; copy in situ at Opéra, 1964). This is a small plaster maquette working out the final figure group. Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordartonline.com/ (accessed 7/17/2015)
Type of Work
sculpture (visual work); maquette (sculpture)Subject
allegory, human figure, music, architectural sculpture, dance, studies, Nineteenth century, Second Empire
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