Candle Esclave Carpeaux

ESCLAVE CARPEAUX

Color – Black
Material – Wax
Height – 35 cm

Pourquoi naître esclave was the name given by the sculptor and painter Jean-Baptiste Carpeau (1827-1875) to a series of busts he created around 1870. At the height of his career, under the protection of Napoleon III, Paris commissioned Carpeaux to design the Fontaine Observatory and slightly changed the theme imposed on him – the four sides of the world – replacing them with allegorical characters representing Europe, Africa, Asia and America. While he was working on the representation of Africa, he came up with the idea of ​​a bust of the Captive of Negres. Obsessed with faithful depictions of human movement, he sculpted his slave at an angle to express rebellion. History suggests that the woman who posed for the bust may also have been the model for Charles Cordier’s “Capresse des colonies” in 1861.

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