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Cire Trudon
The SLAVE Candela
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€220,00
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€220,00
Pourquoi naître esclave (Why be born a slave) is the name given by the sculptor and painter Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (1827-1875) to a series of busts he created around 1870. At the height of his career, enjoying the patronage of Napoleon III, Carpeaux was commissioned by the city of Paris to design the Fontaine de l'Observatoire and slightly modified the theme imposed on him – the four cardinal points – replacing them with allegorical figures personifying Europe, Africa, Asia, and America. While working on the representation of Africa, he had the idea for the bust of the Négresse captive. Obsessed with faithful representations of human movement, he sculpted his slave at an angle to express revolt. History tells us that the woman who posed for the bust may also have been the model for Charles Cordier's "Capresse des colonies" in 1861.
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