Carpeaux: Drawings of the Musée d'Orsay Collections

The diversity of Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux's talent as a draughtsman and the wealth of the collections gave an opportunity for the Musée d'Orsay to present a selection of his drawings by two consecutive hangings. The first was devoted to the representation of human figures, pertraits or studies for characters.
The second was centred on Carpeaux's stay in Italy. A boarder in the Villa Médicis from 1856 to 1862, after his Prix de Rome in 1854, the sculptor drew his inspiration in the daily picturesque (Neapolitan Fisherman, Italian Woman with a Distaff) or in the great artistic models (Virgin with Child after Michelangelo, Heads from the Médicis Sepulchre). But his masterpiece of his Roman years remains Ugolin, for which he presented several drawings.