JEAN-BAPTISTE CARPEAUX (FRENCH, 1827-1875)
Buste du Génie de la danse
signed 'J B Carpeaux' (on the reverse)
marble
26 in. (66 cm.) high

Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 1 March 1990, lot 121.

M. Poletti and A. Richarme, Jean-Baptise Carpeaux, sculpteur: catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre édité, Paris, 2003, p. 109.

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