A FRENCH TERRACOTTA BUST ENTITLED 'LA RIEUSE AUX ROSES', after a model by Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, looking to her left, her hair with garlanded flowers and draped across her chest, on a square stepped waisted socle, signed J.B.Carpeaux and impressed to the base PROPRIETE CARPEAUX with a spread eagle in an oval and ATELIER & DEPOT 71 RUE BOILEAU AUTEUIL PARIS, in an oval with the number 1874 (hairline crack across neck, chips to hair garland)

细节

A FRENCH TERRACOTTA BUST ENTITLED 'LA RIEUSE AUX ROSES', after a model by Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, looking to her left, her hair with garlanded flowers and draped across her chest, on a square stepped waisted socle, signed J.B.Carpeaux and impressed to the base PROPRIETE CARPEAUX with a spread eagle in an oval and ATELIER & DEPOT 71 RUE BOILEAU AUTEUIL PARIS, in an oval with the number 1874 (hairline crack across neck, chips to hair garland)
21½in. (54.5cm.)

拍品专文

As with many of Carpeaux's figures - both terracotta and bronze, this bust is inspired by the face of Anna Foucart who he first met in 1860 when she was fourteen years old; some years later he hoped to marry her, although her father would not allow it. The plaster original of "La Rieuse" is signed and dated on the left shoulder J.B. Carpeaux, 1872; this terracotta example dates from 1874.