Jean-Baptiste CARPEAUX (Valenciennes, 1827 - Courbevoie, 1875) Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824-1904) Plaster Dedicated, signed and indistinctly dated 'à mon ami / Gérôme / JBt Carpeaux (...)' on the pedestal to the right Titled 'GEROME Height: 60.0 cm Bibliography :: related: Michel Poletti and Alain Richarme, 'Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux sculpteur, catalogue de l'œuvre éditée', Paris, 2003, p. 134, model listed under N° BU 32 It was during the first half of 1871 that Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux painted the portrait of the painter Jean-Léon Gérôme, both of whom had left Paris for London to escape the troubles of the Commune. In just a few posing sessions, the sculptor succeeded in immortalising his friend who, in a letter to Edouard-Désiré Fromentin in 1878, expressed his admiration for the sculptor's work: "From the first session, the work was so well in place, so well constructed, so accurate, that it was already strikingly true". The bronze version, at the Salon of 1872, was acclaimed by the public. The critics focused in particular on the treatment of the hair and the cut-out of the bust, which intensified the figure's highly realistic yet romantic character. Jean-Baptiste CARPEAUX (Valenciennes, 1827 - Courbevoie, 1875) Height: 60.0 cm It was during the first half of 1871 that Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux painted a portrait of the painter Jean-Léon Gérôme, both of whom had left Paris for London to escape the troubles of the Commune. In just a few posing sessions, the sculptor succeeded in immortalising his friend who, in a letter to Edouard-Désiré Fromentin in 1878, expressed his admiration for the sculptor's work: "From the first session, the work was so well in place, so well constructed, so accurate, that it was already strikingly true". The bronze version, at the Salon of 1872, was acclaimed by the public. The critics focused in particular on the treatment of the hair and the cut-out of the bust, which intensified the figure's highly realistic yet romantic character.