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 1⁄4 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.