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A FRENCH BRONZE GROUP ENTITLED 'GENIE DE LA DANSE'
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A FRENCH BRONZE GROUP ENTITLED 'GENIE DE LA DANSE'

CAST FROM A MODEL BY JEAN-BAPTISTE CARPEAUX, LAST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY

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A FRENCH BRONZE GROUP ENTITLED 'GENIE DE LA DANSE'
CAST FROM A MODEL BY JEAN-BAPTISTE CARPEAUX, LAST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY
The base signed JBte Carpeaux and with PROPRIETE CARPEAUX foundry stamp
35 in. (89 cm. high)
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In 1865, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux was commissioned to model one of four monumental reliefs for the façade of Charles Garnier's Opéra in Paris. The allegorical group depicting the Spirit or Genius of Dance surrounded by Dancing Bacchantes and a putto was completed four years later. Carpeaux's masterpiece met with strong criticism as the dancing figures, in particular the fleshy bacchantes, were deemed far too suggestive for a public monument. The outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War stilled the controversy and the relief remained on the façade of the building until 1964 when it was removed to the Louvre, owing to the general deterioration of the surface.