Impression of Amélie de Montfort
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux
ca. 1867–69 · Terracotta · European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Rapidly sketched, the model delivers the basics of the master’s intense attachment to his fiancée, a young aristocrat, first glimpsed at a ball. The marriage took place in 1869 but soon soured owing to his morbid, irrational suspicions of infidelity on her part.
- Artist
- Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux
- Date
- ca. 1867–69
- Medium
- Terracotta
- Culture
- French, Paris
- Department
- European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
- Credit line
- Purchase, Friends of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts Gifts, 1989
