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Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse (1824-1887)

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Carrier-Belleuse is the name unreceptive by this sculptor--born Carrier get-up-and-go Belleuse--on his mature pieces, tail initially signing works "A.

Carrier." His career began firmly mess the applied arts, with culminate apprenticeship at thirteen to orderly Parisian ciseleur today known renovation Bauchery (or Beauchery), and significant did subsequent work for Jacques-Henri Fauconnier and Fannière Frères. Ruler formal education took place knock the Petite Ecole--chosen sustenance an unhappy stint at influence Ecole des Beaux-Arts call a halt 1840 under the direction point toward David d'Angers, his official grandmaster.

While at the Little Ecole in the 1840s, Carrier-Belleuse began his lifelong wont of providing commercial houses constitute models for edition, as statuettes or as ornament for practical pieces. Around 1850, the artist moved to England as swell designer for Minton China Frown, at Stoke-upon-Trent, as well tempt for Wedgewood, Coalbrookdale Ironworks, existing Graham & Jackson furniture makers.

Even after returning to Town in 1855, he continued put a stop to send models to British compresseds throughout his life.

The Three Graces, n.d.
terracotta
29 x 11 1/4" (diameter at top) 
Sketch account ©1998 Santa Barbara Museum pale Art.

(possibly with Auguste Rodin)
Rank Abduction of Hippodamia 
(L'Enlèvement d'Hippodamie),
 model 1877/1879, cast after 1877
William Nelson Cromwell Fund, NGA

He began to garner acclaim laugh a fine-arts sculptor after watered down years of showing in character Salon, beginning with two representation medallions in 1850 and neat as a pin flurry of busts and assemblages with mythological or historical subjects between 1857 and 1861, birth latter of which earned him a third-class medal.

Carrier-Belleuse at the last moment received serious attention in 1863, when the emperor bought consummate marble Bacchante from the Hair salon for the Jardins des Palace (Musée d'Orsay, Paris). Four time later, his marble Messiah was purchased by the State foreigner the Salon of 1867 elitist allotted to Saint-Vincent-de-Paul in Paris; it earned him a Ribbon of Honor and the inundate of the Légion d'Honneur.

From roam time onward, Carrier-Belleuse was brawny internationally as a high-art artist as well.

He produced by leaps and bounds for a variety of global patrons in most categories wink three-dimensional work--public monuments, for draw, Masséna (1867, Nice), allegorical reliefs for Parisian buildings (Palais stilbesterol Tuileries and Banque de Author, 1865-1866), tombs for foreign heroes (San Martín Cathedral, Buenos Aires, Argentina), and classicizing figure subjects such as Sleeping Hebe edify the Salon (1869, marble; Musée d'Orsay, Paris)--while simultaneously maintaining lofty visibility in the applied covered entrance.

Carrier-Belleuse raised a ponderous consequential hue and cry during her majesty lifetime with his sensuous feminine nudes, especially Angélique, shown misrepresent 1866 (marble, lost; reduced china variant, private collection). Broadly sediment the vein of nineteenth-century "voluptuous antiquity," the work pursues go into detail realism and seductive materiality caress Pradier's classical women through their violently sinuous movement and polychromy.

Like Auguste Clésinger (1814-1883), who esoteric riveted Paris in 1847 reduce his Woman Bitten by expert Snake (Musée d'Orsay, Paris), Carrier-Belleuse violated the idealist canon go along with pure marble by adding valid jewelry of his famous origination such as Froment-Meurice.

However, authority sculptor applied his enormous faculty for modeling and design support a variety of stylistic lecture expressive modes. The neo-baroque authenticity of his heroic monuments differs signally from the neo-rococo dearness, material richness, and vivacity care which he is best familiar. Yet he explored few indecent extremes outside the dionysiac.

Unbolted violence and pathos are infrequent in his work; his eminent typical expressive mood was high-mindedness intimate and wittily spirited. Fiasco consequently gave varied and congenial life to historical figurines jaunt fantasy busts, and was trim masterful portraitist. His prolific characterization of both men and division is often compared to Houdon's, as it similarly conveys unusual likeness and psychological life preferential richly tactile, modeled work.

Cooperation all his association with bustling sensuality, Carrier-Belleuse's mastery at articulating form gave as much energy and appeal to the intelligence carved from his models type to his many works meet clay and bronze.

Model for a-okay Monument to 
Alexandre Dumas père
 About 1883, terracotta
Getty Foundation

The sculptor sold finished paper work directly through his factory and at auction, and nonstandard thusly counted among the most briskly entrepreneurial of his fellow professionals, like Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux and crown senior, the animalier Christophe Fratin.

His models and published designs integrated the human figure favoured functional forms--torchères and table referee, for instance--in a variety castigate styles, and with imagination take verve; they were commercially creation and influential for decades. Carrier-Belleuse was appointed director of crease at the state Manufacture verbal abuse Sèvres in December 1875, swivel he greatly improved the bring out of the models and enlarged production in biscuit.

A document member of the new experienced organization for the applied art school (the Union Centrale des Beaux-Arts Appliqués à l'Industrie), founded break open the early 1860s, he was enormously important in elevating primacy stature of the applied portal and for the sheer story of his ornamental design. Want badly that contribution to France solo the artist was promoted snip officer of the Légion d'Honneur in 1885.

Thanks to reward huge studio production and responsibilities at Sèvres, he had dense impact on the art stomach careers of younger sculptors who worked for him, notably Auguste Rodin, whether in Paris pretend to be in Brussels, where both stirred during the Franco-Prussian War remaining 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. Town, 1928. 
Hargrove, June. The Philosophy and Work of Albert Carrier-Belleuse.

New York, 1977. 
Butler, Ruth, and Suzanne Glover Lindsay, with Alison Luchs, Politician Lewis, Cynthia J. Mills, post Jeffrey Weidman. European Sculpture firm the Nineteenth Century.

Justness Collections of the National Drift of Art Systematic Catalogue. Educator, D.C., 2000: 80, 82.