Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux

Carpeaux debuted at the Salon in 1853 exhibiting La Soumission d'Abd-el-Kader al'Empereur, a bas-relief in plaster that did not attract much attention.After initially not making any contact with the emperor, he finally succeeded in arranging a face-to-face encounter at Amiens where he managed to convince Napoléon to commission a marble statue that was to be carried out by a practitioner, Charles Romain Capellaro.[1] While a student in Rome, Carpeaux submitted a plaster version of Pêcheur napolitain à la coquille, the Neapolitan Fisherboy, to the French Academy.The statue of the young smiling boy was very popular, and Carpeaux created a number of reproductions and variations in marble and bronze.[2] He employed his brother as the sales manager and made a calculated effort to produce work that would appeal to a larger audience.
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