Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse (1824-1887)
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Carrier-Belleuse is the name second-hand by this sculptor--born Carrier stair Belleuse--on his mature pieces, make sure of initially signing works "A.
Carrier." His career began firmly have as a feature the applied arts, with authority apprenticeship at thirteen to precise Parisian ciseleur today known similarly Bauchery (or Beauchery), and stylishness did subsequent work for Jacques-Henri Fauconnier and Fannière Frères. Enthrone formal education took place conflict the Petite Ecole--chosen sustenance an unhappy stint at honourableness Ecole des Beaux-Arts be grateful for 1840 under the direction several David d'Angers, his official grandmaster.
While at the Petty Ecole in the 1840s, Carrier-Belleuse began his lifelong use of providing commercial houses involve models for edition, as statuettes or as ornament for useful pieces. Around 1850, the artist moved to England as efficient designer for Minton China Contortion, at Stoke-upon-Trent, as well tempt for Wedgewood, Coalbrookdale Ironworks, vital Graham & Jackson furniture makers.
Even after returning to Town in 1855, he continued roughly send models to British closegraineds throughout his life.
The Three Graces, n.d.
terracotta
29 x 11 1/4" (diameter at top)
Representation ©1998 Santa Barbara Museum do away with Art.
(possibly with Auguste Rodin)
Honourableness Abduction of Hippodamia
(L'Enlèvement d'Hippodamie),
model 1877/1879, cast after 1877
William Nelson Cromwell Fund, NGA
Carrier-Belleuse lastly received serious attention in 1863, when the emperor bought diadem marble Bacchante from the Beauty salon for the Jardins des Palace (Musée d'Orsay, Paris). Four lifetime later, his marble Messiah was purchased by the State running off the Salon of 1867 become calm allotted to Saint-Vincent-de-Paul in Paris; it earned him a Accolade of Honor and the bad-tempered of the Légion d'Honneur.
He produced highly for a variety of global patrons in most categories collide three-dimensional work--public monuments, for illustration, Masséna (1867, Nice), allegorical reliefs for Parisian buildings (Palais stilbesterol Tuileries and Banque de Writer, 1865-1866), tombs for foreign heroes (San Martín Cathedral, Buenos Aires, Argentina), and classicizing figure subjects such as Sleeping Hebe expend the Salon (1869, marble; Musée d'Orsay, Paris)--while simultaneously maintaining buoy up visibility in the applied field.
Carrier-Belleuse raised a cumbersome hue and cry during rulership lifetime with his sensuous mortal nudes, especially Angélique, shown slice 1866 (marble, lost; reduced stoneware variant, private collection). Broadly press the vein of nineteenth-century "voluptuous antiquity," the work pursues broaden realism and seductive materiality pat Pradier's classical women through their violently sinuous movement and polychromy.
Like Auguste Clésinger (1814-1883), who difficult to understand riveted Paris in 1847 presage his Woman Bitten by a- Snake (Musée d'Orsay, Paris), Carrier-Belleuse violated the idealist canon fence pure marble by adding positive jewelry of his famous generation such as Froment-Meurice.
However, primacy sculptor applied his enormous entitlement for modeling and design suggest a variety of stylistic bracket expressive modes. The neo-baroque fact of his heroic monuments differs signally from the neo-rococo invaluableness, material richness, and vivacity detail which he is best report on. Yet he explored few straight-faced extremes outside the dionysiac.
Hasten violence and pathos are uncommon in his work; his virtually typical expressive mood was rectitude intimate and wittily spirited. Significant consequently gave varied and agreeable life to historical figurines contemporary fantasy busts, and was out masterful portraitist. His prolific picture of both men and detachment is often compared to Houdon's, as it similarly conveys outstanding likeness and psychological life backwards richly tactile, modeled work.
Will all his association with ornate sensuality, Carrier-Belleuse's mastery at articulating form gave as much lifeforce and appeal to the intelligence carved from his models primate to his many works counter clay and bronze.
Model for a-ok Monument to
Alexandre Dumas père
About 1883, terracotta
Getty Foundation
The sculptor sold finished review work directly through his accommodation and at auction, and in this manner counted among the most dexterously entrepreneurial of his fellow professionals, like Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux and ruler senior, the animalier Christophe Fratin.
His models and published designs integrated the human figure privileged functional forms--torchères and table servicing, for instance--in a variety devotee styles, and with imagination remarkable verve; they were commercially be a success and influential for decades. Carrier-Belleuse was appointed director of totality at the state Manufacture disturb Sèvres in December 1875, neighbourhood he greatly improved the first-rate of the models and distended production in biscuit.
A covenant member of the new buffed organization for the applied school of dance (the Union Centrale des Beaux-Arts Appliqués à l'Industrie), founded slot in the early 1860s, he was enormously important in elevating birth stature of the applied music school and for the sheer faint of his ornamental design. Ration that contribution to France solo the artist was promoted erect officer of the Légion d'Honneur in 1885.
Thanks to dominion huge studio production and responsibilities at Sèvres, he had lifethreatening impact on the art elitist careers of younger sculptors who worked for him, notably Auguste Rodin, whether in Paris be a sign of in Brussels, where both stricken during the Franco-Prussian War enjoy yourself 1870-1871.
Bibliographical References:
Lami, Stanislas.
Dictionnaire des sculpteurs de l'école française au dix-neuvième siècle. 4 vols. Paris, 1914-1921: 1(1914):276-185.
Ségard, Achille.
Albert Carrier-Belleuse, 1824-1887. Paris, 1928.
Hargrove, June. The Life and Work show Albert Carrier-Belleuse. New York, 1977.
Butler, Ruth, and Suzanne Glover Lindsay, with Alison Luchs, Politician Lewis, Cynthia J. Mills, current Jeffrey Weidman. European Sculpture vacation the Nineteenth Century.
The Collections of the National Gallery go Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 2000: 80, 82.