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Pourquoi Naître Esclave, 1868

Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux

Exhibited by Galerie Nicolas Bourriaud

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Material Bronze
Dimensions 64 x 45.5 x 36 cm
Place of Creation Paris
Status Vetted

About the Work

Bronze with triple patina, brown on the torso, light brown on the pedestal, and black on the hair, signed “J.B. Carpeaux”.

Marked “Propriété Carpeaux” with the Imperial Eagle. Titled on the base “Pourquoi naître esclave” (“Why be born a slave”).

(Earrings attached).

Circa 1870

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Provenance

Private collection

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