Jean-Baptiste
Carpeaux (11
May 1827 – 12 October 1875) was a French sculptor and painter during the Second
Empire under Napoleon III.
He
created the Le Triomphe de Flore (The
Triumph of Flora). Which is at the South façade of the Pavillon
de Flore, Louvre
Palace, Paris.
Carpeaux’s
first important public commission was to embellish the attic
exterior of the Louvre’s Pavillon de Flore with a high relief of the Triumph of
Flora, personifying the benefits of the goddess’s realm over spring and plants,
and by implication, the benefits of life under the regime of the Second Empire.
Numerous clay models of nubile young women led up to the final configuration in
limestone.
Thank you Merja.
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