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Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux: Quick Facts

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Also Known As Jules Carpeaux
Born May 11, 1827 • Valenciennes • France
Died October 12, 1875 (aged 48) • Courbevoie • France
Awards And Honors Prix de Rome

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The Dance, a stone sculpture by Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, depicts intertwined nude figures in dynamic poses, displayed inside the Musee d'Orsay beneath a high glass ceiling.
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Jean-Antoine Houdon: Diana
Jean-Antoine Houdon
French sculptor
Psyche Abandoned, marble sculpture by Augustin Pajou, 1791.
Augustin Pajou
French sculptor
Portrait of Auguste Rodin standing indoors, wearing a buttoned, two-toned coat with a full beard and tousled hair, looking slightly to the side.
Auguste Rodin
French sculptor
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Germain Pilon
French sculptor
Lachaise, Gaston: Head of a Woman
Gaston Lachaise
French-American sculptor
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Jean-Jacques Caffiéri
French sculptor
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Pierre-Jean David d’Angers
French sculptor
Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso
Spanish artist
Lorenzo Bernini: Apollo and Daphne
Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Italian artist
Andrea del Verrocchio: David
Andrea del Verrocchio
Italian painter and sculptor
saltcellar of Francis I
Benvenuto Cellini
Italian artist
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Lysippus
Greek sculptor
Epstein, Sir Jacob
Sir Jacob Epstein
British sculptor
Head of God the Father
Daniele da Volterra
Italian artist
Marino Marini.
Marino Marini
Italian sculptor
Manship, Paul
Paul Manship
American sculptor
Edgar Degas
Edgar Degas
French artist
Honoré Daumier
Honoré Daumier
French artist
Pigalle, Jean-Baptiste: tomb of Maurice, comte de Saxe
Jean-Baptiste Pigalle
French sculptor
“Glory of Louis XIV,” marble relief by Antoine Coysevox, c. 1686; in the Salon de la Guerre, Versailles, Fr.
Antoine Coysevox
French sculptor

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