Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux
1827-1875
Why Born Enslaved
c. 1868
Plaster model with original polychrome surface
Inscribed ‘POURQUOI NAITRE ESCLAVE’ and signed ‘JBte Carpeaux 1868’ on the socle
Height: 35 cm
Provenance
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Possibly, atelier of the artist and by descent in the family until sold at Paris, Galerie Manzi, Atelier J.-B. Carpeaux, 8th December 1913, lot 31 (possibly acquired by ‘M. Behrens’)
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Paris, Hôtel Drouot, Dumousset & Deburaux, 13th March 1995, lot 9B
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Paris, Artcurial, 15th December 2022, lot 38
