LA RIEUSE NAPOLITANE, J.-B. CARPEAUX, France, 2nd half 19th century

Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (1827-1875).

La Rieuse Napolitane (Neapolitan Funny Sq.).

The girl is dressed in Neapolitan folk costume, with a flat hat, traditionally worn in the Sabine Mountains in the 19th century. Moreover, it is distinguished by an elaborate hairstyle with two small buns on either side of the face. 

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France, 2nd half 19th century

A bust made of alabaster/ span>

Height 50 cm, width 29 cm, depth 29 cm.

Signed: JB. Carpeaux.

The model for La Rieuse was Anna Foucart, the daughter of an artist friend, a lawyer from Valenciennes.

Carpeaux presented La Rieuse in marble at the Salon of 1867 and decided to combine it with a male bust of Le Rieur Napolitain. The couple became a symbol of Carpeaux's creativity and became his most famous models.

Jean - Baptiste Carpeaux (1827 - 1875) - French sculptor who became one of the most respected artists of the era. He made many decorative sculptural groups, but the bas-relief made him famousle = "font-family: 'andale mono', times;">Dance (1868). In 1865, Charles Garnier he ordered from Carpeaux for the Opera Garnier building he was building iein Paris, one of the four sculptures decorating the facade; the artist composed his work as a picture independent of the wall, moving from a semi-plastic relief to a full-plastic sculpture.

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