Bust Candle Collection L'Esclave - Candle 6.6lbs
Pourquoi naĂźtre esclave (Why born a slave) is the name given by sculptor and painter Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (1827-1875) to a series of busts he created around 1870.
At the heights of his career, enjoying the protection of Napoleon III, Carpeaux was commissioned by the city of Paris to design the Fontaine de lâObservatoire and slightly modified the theme imposed on him â the four cardinal points â by replacing them with allegoric characters personifying Europe, Africa, Asia and America.
While he was working on the representation of Africa, he came up with the idea of the bust of the NĂ©gresse Captive. Obsessed with faithful representations of human movement, he sculpted his slave at an angle in order to express revolt. The story goes that the woman who posed for the bust might have also been the model of the âCapresse des coloniesâ by Charles Cordier in 1861.
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Pourquoi naĂźtre esclave (Why born a slave) is the name given by sculptor and painter Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (1827-1875) to a series of busts he created around 1870.
At the heights of his career, enjoying the protection of Napoleon III, Carpeaux was commissioned by the city of Paris to design the Fontaine de lâObservatoire and slightly modified the theme imposed on him â the four cardinal points â by replacing them with allegoric characters personifying Europe, Africa, Asia and America.
While he was working on the representation of Africa, he came up with the idea of the bust of the NĂ©gresse Captive. Obsessed with faithful representations of human movement, he sculpted his slave at an angle in order to express revolt. The story goes that the woman who posed for the bust might have also been the model of the âCapresse des coloniesâ by Charles Cordier in 1861.
