Girl with a Shell
Circa 1873
White marble on octagonal base, with wooden pedestal
Marble figure: 39 9/16 x 18 1/2 x 20 7/8 in.
JB.TE Carpeau 1873
White marble on octagonal base, with wooden pedestal
Marble figure: 39 9/16 x 18 1/2 x 20 7/8 in.
JB.TE Carpeau 1873
Hôtel Drouot, Vente Carpeaux, Paris, 21 December 1873, nos.1 and 2;
Lord Mildmay of Fleet, UK;
Fabius Frères collection, Paris, from 1950;
Their sale at Sotheby’s Paris, 26-27 October 2011, no. 48
Daniel Katz, London
Lord Mildmay of Fleet, UK;
Fabius Frères collection, Paris, from 1950;
Their sale at Sotheby’s Paris, 26-27 October 2011, no. 48
Daniel Katz, London
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux 1827-1825, Paris Musée du Petit Palais, 1955-56, nos. 14 and 90;
Le Second Empire de Winterhalter à Renoir, Paris, Musée Jacquemart-André, May-June 1957, nos. 298 and 299;
Sur les traces de Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, Paris, Grand Palais, March-May 1975, nos. 44 and 45
Bibliography:
Dirk Kocks, Jean Baptiste Carpeaux: Rezeption und Originalität (Sankt Augustin 1981), pp61-67,161, notes 327 and 328:
De Carpeaux à Matisse: La Sculpture française de 1850 à 1914 dans les musées et les collections publiques du Nord de la France, exh. cat (Lille; Musée des Beaux -Arts, 1982), pp.113, 114, 116, 118-20;
Suzanne Glover Lindsay, European Sculpture of the Nineteenth Century: The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue (Washington,2000), pp.64-79