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Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (1812-1875)

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This is the artist's biography published, or to be published, in the NGA Systematic Catalogue

The son and grandson of stonemasons, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux was born in 1827 in Valenciennes and moved to Paris at the age of eleven.

Beginning in the early 1840s he studied at the Petite Ecole, the state school for training in the applied arts, formally called the Ecole Gratuite de Dessin, before entering the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in 1844, where he changed masters repeatedly, oscillating between typical student ambition (optimal credentials for the Prix de Rome) and his interest in more liberal approaches.

Ugolino and His Children, 1865-67
marble, 6'5" high
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Carpeaux moved from Ecole painter Abel de Pujol (1785-1861), to the independent sculptor Franç