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A French terracotta figure entitled 'Flore Accroupie'
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A French terracotta figure entitled 'Flore Accroupie'

BY THE ATELIER CARPEAUX, PARIS, CIRCA 1870

细节
A French terracotta figure entitled 'Flore Accroupie'
By the Atelier Carpeaux, Paris, Circa 1870
The young lady fixing her hair, kneeling on a rectangular base with canted angles, inscribed Jbte Carpeaux, 2344, with two stamps, one inscibed ATELIER ET DEPOT, 7 RUE BOILEAU, AUTEUIL PARIS, the other PROPRIETE CARPEAUX
(48.5 cm.) high
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拍品专文

The present figure of Flora is related to the sculptor's relief for the Southern facade of the Louvre, The Pavillon de Flore, which was commissioned by Napoleon III in 1863.
In sculpting this freestanding figure, Carpeaux borrowed the pose from the Antique figure of Crouching Venus, with the right arm raised over the head. The face is that of Anna Foucart, the daughter of Carpeaux's boyhood friend and a girl whose features the sculptor used throughout his career.
The full size marble version (1873) was commissioned by Carpeaux's English patron Mr. Turner and is now in the Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon. The original plaster model of 1870 is in the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek museum, Copenhagen. The Carpeaux atelier authorized editions in terracotta, bronze and marble.