Carpeaux

Carpeaux, JEAN BAPTISTE, sculptor, was born at Valenciennes, 14th May 1827, and in 1854 obtained the Prix de Rome. His bronze Neapolitan boy attracted notice; and 'Ugolino and his four sons' (1863), also in bronze, though it defied the canons of sculpture, made him famous. He settled in Paris in 1862. His chef d'œuvre, the marble group, 'The Dance,' in the façade of the New Opera in Paris, fully showed his dramatic power and the exuberance of his imagination; but it provoked much hostile criticism as involving an attempt to stretch beyond their natural province the limits of the plastic art. The most notable of his later works is the great fountain in the Luxembourg Gardens. He died 11th October 1875.