Jean-Baptiste CARPEAUX (Valenciennes, 1827 - Courbevoie, 1875) Childbirth (seated nude woman) Oil on paper mounted on canvas Signed 'Carpeaux' lower left Bears a label 'Cleveland Museum of Art / Tr 15751 / 90.1' on verso 30.0 x 27.0 cm Provenance: Charles Chevallier Collection (1804 - 1859) ; Galerie Claude Aubry, Paris (according to a label on the reverse); Collection Jacques et Michèle Ginepro (collection mark affixed several times on the reverse); Then by descent; Private collection, Monaco Exhibitions : D' Ingres à Théodore Rousseau: aspects de la peinture française au XIXe siècle, Paris, galerie Claude Aubry, May-June 1959, n° 2 Carpeaux peintre, Valenciennes, Paris, Amsterdam, 1999 - 2000, p.184, n° 117, repr. Jean-Baptiste CARPEAUX (Valenciennes, 1827 - Courbevoie, 1875) 30.0 x 27.0 cm