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CHARPENTIER, Félix-Maurice

Bollène, Vaucluse 1858 - Paris 1924

Le Départ des hirondelles

The Departure of the Swallows

bronze cast from a 1893 model

bronze

statue

Dimensions (HxWxD): 18 14 x 8 x 5 in.

signed on back of base: F.Charpentier 1893

Acc. No.: Metz no. 677

Credit Line: The Arthur R. Metz Collection at the Indiana University Memorial Union Metz Suite

Photo credit: Indiana University Campus Art Collection

© Artist : public domain

© Artist : public domain

Provenance

  • Chicago, Dr. Arthur R. Metz (1887-1963) Collection
  • 1963, bequeathed to Indiana University, Bloomington

Bibliography

  • Collection's website, September 29, 2015

Comment

  • Collection's website, September 29, 2015:
    Few details of the life of Charpentier are published. He began to model figures from backyard clay at the age of seven, studied with the sculptor Armand in Avignon, and moved to Paris in 1877. He studied under Pierre Cavelier and Amédée Doublemard at the Ècole des Beaux-Arts in the 1880s and began to exhibit at the Paris Salon in either 1882 or 1884. His form was admired for both its force of expression and for its beauty and grace. He exhibited several allegorical figures at the Salon in the 1880s, including the Muse, an edition of which is in the Metz Collection.