About the Artwork
Le Chinois
1872
Jean Baptiste Carpeaux
1827-1875
French
Unknown
Bronze
Overall: 27 1/2 × 20 1/8 × 13 5/8 inches (69.9 × 51.1 × 34.6 cm)
Sculpture
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
Gift of Florence Ballin
2000.158
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Markings
Signed, underneath figure's left shoulder: Carpeaux
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Foundry marks: [eagle motif] PROPRIÉTÉ CARPEAUX [eagle motif]
Provenance
Florence Ballin
2000-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Darr, Alan. P. and Brian Gallagher. "Recent acquisitions (2000-2006) of European sculpture and decorative arts at The Detroit Institute of Arts." The Burlington Magazine 149, no. 1251 (June 2007): p. 453, pl. XIV (ill.).
Fictions of Emancipation: Carpeaux's Why Born Enslaved! Reconsidered. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Hew Haven adn London, 2022, pl. 26 (ill.), p. 130.
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Jean Baptiste Carpeaux, Le Chinois, 1872, bronze. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Florence Ballin, 2000.158.
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