Cleveland Museum of Art
Bust of a Lady (possibly Fanny Coleman)
Jean-Baptiste CarpeauxLinkedCulture matchlcp-b3f2b9879ac8
- Date
- 1872
- Medium
- marble
- Culture
- France, 19th century
- Department
- Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 148325
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
Abandoning the strict frontality and symmetry of the neoclassical style, Carpeaux was instead inspired by French portrait busts of the 1600s and 1700s. This bust probably depicts Fanny Coleman, an English actress with whom Carpeaux may have had a romantic relationship. The turn of the head and the undulating drapery infuse the figure with a sense of drama. Patronized by Napoleon III, Carpeaux created the celebrated figural group La Danse for the facade of the Opera Garnier in Paris, a work renowned for its sensual nudes, but denounced by contemporaries as an affront to public decency.
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- Credit line
- John L. Severance Fund
- Provenance
- Fanny Coleman (?), London; [Leon Helft, Paris]; David Weill, Paris; [Heim Gallery, Paris]
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