File:Carpeaux Negress 01.jpg

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Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux: Bust of a Negress.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux  (1827–1875)  wikidata:Q182791
 
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux
Alternative names
Birth name: Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux; Jean Baptiste Carpeaux; Jules Carpeaux; Ernest Blagny; jean pierre carpeaux; Carpeaux; j. b. carpeaux; jean-baptiste carpeaux
Description French sculptor and painter
Date of birth/death 11 May 1827 Edit this at Wikidata 12 October 1875 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Valenciennes Courbevoie
Work period 1844 Edit this at Wikidata–1874 Edit this at Wikidata
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artist QS:P170,Q182791
Title
Bust of a Negress.
label QS:Len,"Bust of a Negress."
label QS:Lpl,"Popiersie Murzynki."
label QS:Lfr,"Buste d'une négresse."
Date 1868
date QS:P571,+1868-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium bronze
medium QS:P186,Q34095
Dimensions 63.5 cm (25 in)
institution QS:P195,Q153306
Current location
1st floor
Accession number
233370
Object history 1979: bequeathed to National Museum in Warsaw (MNW)
Inscriptions

Signature:

JB Carpeaux
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POURQUOI NAITRE ESCLAVE
[Why be born a slave?]
Notes The Negress portrays a woman who is the personification of the continent of Africa. Carpeaux wanted to use her to emphasize the horrors of slavery, creating the piece 3 years after the Civil War of the United States had ended and twenty years after slavery was banned in all French and Danish colonies. The bust was developed as part of Carpeaux's monumental group Quatre Parties du Monde (Four Parts of the World), commissioned by the city of Paris in 1867 as the crowning element of the architect Davioud's Fontaine de l'Observatoire.
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