person
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux
Carpeaux
French sculptor (1827-75); his exuberant group La Danse for the Paris Opéra was attacked as indecent before it was accepted.
Reading notes
- Auguste Rodin §19 Carpeaux
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (1827-75); his group La Danse for the Paris Opéra was first jeered at as indecent, then ignored.