About This Artwork
Jean Baptiste Carpeaux
French, 1827-1875
Allegory of Agriculture1865
Plaster
26 x 37 cm (10 1/4 x 14 1/2 in.)
Signed right base: Bte Carpeaux
Ada Turnbull Hertle Endowment, 1957.247
Medieval to Modern European Painting and Sculpture
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
Paris, Petit Palais, "J. B. Carpeaux, 1827–1875," 1955-1956, no. 89.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, "The Romantics to Rodin: French Nineteenth-Century Sculpture from American Collections," 28 February – 25 May 1980, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 25 June – 21 September 1980, Detroit Institute of Arts, 27 October 1980 – 4 January 1981, and the Indianapolis Museum of Art, 22 February – 29 April 1981, nos. 36-38.
Publication History
Ernest Chesneau, Le Statuaire J.–B. Carpeaux: sa vie et son oeuvre (Paris, 1880), pp. 102–08.
Paul Vitry, Carpeaux (Paris, 1912), pp. 67-68.
“Sur des ventes: Atelier Carpeaux,” Gazette de l’hôtel Drouot 130 (December 10, 1913), p. 1.
André M. de Poncheville, Carpeaux (Paris, 1925), pp. 75–78.
Christiane Aulanier, Le Pavillon de flore, Histoire du palais et du musée du louvre 10 (Paris, 1971), p. 85, fig. 93.
Paris, Grand Palais, Sur le traces de Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (1975), nos. 251-53.
Nice, Galerie des Ponchettes, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, 1827–1875: sculptures, peintures, dessins (1980), no. 28.
Musée d’Orsay, Catalogue sommaire illustré des sculptures (Paris, 1986), pp. 80–81.
Claude Jeancolas, Carpeaux: La Farouche volonté d’être (Lausanne, 1987), pp. 85–87 (ill.).
Michel Poletti and Alain Richarme, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, scupltuer: catalogue raisonné de l’oeuvre édité (Paris, 2003), p. 162.
Ownership History
Commissioned by H. Lefuel for the south facade of the Pavillon de Flore, Tuileries Palace, Paris, 1863; models completed 1865 and in Carpeaux's studio until 1913; sold, the artist's atelier sale, Galerie Manzi-Joyant, 15 rue de la Ville-l'Éveque, Paris, December 8-9, 1913, lot 106, to Nelson for 2000 francs [according to Gazette de l'Hotel Drouot]. Consigned to Gallery Hector Brame, Paris, September 1955 [according to letter from Sylvie Brame to Brandon Ruud, November 24, 2004, copy in curatorial file; see also 1955-56 Paris exh. cat.]; sold by Hector Brame and César de Hauke to the Art Institute, 1957.