Art History
1848-1907 Industrial Revolution II

Art & the French State

  1. Couture, Romans of the Decadence
  2. Garnier's Paris Opéra
  3. Carpeaux's Dance

Carpeaux's Dance Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux​, Dance, 1865-69, marble, 420 x 298 cm. (Musée d'Orsay, Paris). Commissioned by Charles Garnier for the facade of L'Opéra. In 1964 it was replaced by a copy executed by Paul Belmondo.

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Carpeaux's Dance

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