FRENCH SCULPTURE CENSUS / RÉPERTOIRE DE SCULPTURE FRANÇAISE CARPEAUX, Jean-Baptiste Valenciennes, Nord 1827 - Courbevoie, Hauts-de-Seine 1875 Agriculture Allegory of Agriculture 1865 plaster statuette 1 1 10 ?4 x 14 ?2 in. signed right base: Bte Carpeaux Acc. No.: 1957.247 Credit Line: Ada Turnbull Hertle Endowment Photo credit: ph. Art Institute of Chicago © Artist : Chicago, Illinois, The Art Institute of Chicago www.artic.edu/aic Provenance 1863, Commissioned by H. Lefuel for the south facade of the Pavillon de Flore, Tuileries Palace, Paris 1865-1913, models completed 1865 and in Carpeaux's studio until 1913 1913, December 8-9, Paris, Galerie Manzi-Joyant, 15 rue de la Ville-l'Éveque, sold, the artist's atelier sale, lot 106, to Nelson for 2000 francs [according to Gazette de l'Hotel Drouot] 1955, September, Paris, Consigned to Gallery Hector Brame [according to letter from Sylvie Brame to Brandon Ruud, November 24, 2004, copy in curatorial file; see also 1955-56 Paris exh. cat.] 1957, sold by Hector Brame and César de Hauke to the Art Institute 1957, Ada Turnbull Hertle Endowment Bibliography Museum's website, 10 December 2011 1880 Chesneau Ernest Chesneau, Le Statuaire J.–B. Carpeaux: sa vie et son oeuvre, Paris, 1880, pp. 102–108 1912 Vitry Paul Vitry, Carpeaux, Paris, 1912, pp. 67-68 1913 Drouot “Sur des ventes: Atelier Carpeaux,” Gazette de l’hôtel Drouot 130, December 10, 1913, p. 1 1925 Mabille de Poncheville André M. de Poncheville, Carpeaux, Paris, 1925, pp. 75–78 1971 Aulanier Christiane Aulanier, Le Pavillon de flore, Histoire du palais et du musée du Louvre 10, Paris, 1971, p. 85, fig. 93 1975 Grand Palais Sur les traces de Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, Paris, Grand Palais, 1975, nos. 251-253 1980 Nice Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, 1827–1875: sculptures, peintures, dessins, Nice, Galerie des Ponchettes, 1980, no. 28 1986 Orsay Musée d’Orsay, Catalogue sommaire illustré des sculptures, Paris, 1986, pp. 80–81 1987 Jeancolas Claude Jeancolas, Carpeaux: La Farouche volonté d’être, Lausanne, 1987, pp. 85–87 (ill.) 2003 Poletti et Richarme Michel Poletti and Alain Richarme, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, sculpteur: catalogue raisonné de l’oeuvre édité, Paris, 2003, p. 162 Exhibitions 1955-1956 Paris J. B. Carpeaux, 1827–1875, Paris, Petit Palais, 1955-1956, no. 89 1980-1981 Los Angeles/Minneapolis/Detroit/Indianapolis The Romantics to Rodin. French Nineteenth-Century Sculpture from North American Collections, Organized and edited by Peter Fusco & Horst W. Janson, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, March 4-May 25, 1980; The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, June 25-September 21, 1980; The Detroit Institute of Arts, October 27, 1980-January 4, 1981; Indianapolis Museum of Art, February 22-April 29, 1981, nos. 36-38.