Genius of Dance, ca. 1869

  • Jean Baptiste Carpeaux, French, 1827-1875

Bronze

  • Overall: 40 1/8 × 18 1/2 × 20 3/4 inches (101.9 × 47 × 52.7 cm)

Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Coleman Mopper in memory of Mrs. Herman A. (Evelyn) August

1992.223

Department

European Sculpture and Dec Arts

Signed, on top front of base: J. B. Carpeaux

Foundry mark, on figure's supporting element: PROPRIETE CARPEAUX [small eagle cachet]

(H. Peter Finlay, Inc., New York, New York, USA)

Dr. and Mrs. Coleman Mopper Collection

1992-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

The Romantics to Rodin. Exh. cat., Los Angeles County Museum of Art and George Braziller, Inc. Los Angeles and New York, 1980, 153, 155 (ill.), no. 40. The Influence of Paris: European and American Sculpture 1830-1930. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1981, no. 9 (ill.).

Jean Baptiste Carpeaux, Genius of Dance, ca. 1869, bronze. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Coleman Mopper in memory of Mrs. Herman A. (Evelyn) August, 1992.223.