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La Danse is an 1868 sculpture by the French artist Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux. It was one of four sculptural groups made from Echaillon marble that decorate the façade of the Opera Garnier in Paris, two to either side of the entrance at ground level.
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (1827 - 1875) In 1863, Charles Garnier, the architect of the new Paris Opera, commissioned four sculpted groups by four artists who had won the Grand Prix de Rome to decorate the facade of the building. Carpeaux was to cover the theme of dance.
In Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux His most famous work, The Dance (completed 1869), a sculptural group for the facade of the Paris Opéra, created a sensation and was attacked as immoral. His works were the subject of some of the most significant debates about sculpture during the mid-19th century.
François Jouffroy (1806-1882) was given the theme of ‘Harmony’ (lyrical poetry), Eugène Guillaume (1822-1905) that of ‘Instrumental Music’, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (1827-1875) was given the theme of ‘Dance’, and Joseph Perraud (1819-1876) was given that of ‘Lyrical Drama.’
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux French. 1864. On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 556. Carpeaux’s high relief on the façade of the Opéra Garnier in Paris, with its naturalistic nudes embodying Dance, is one of the great monuments of Second Empire style.
The Dance, commissioned for the Opera Garnier in 1869, featuring several nude figures in a wild and boisterous dance, criticized as an offense to common decency Pêcheur à la coquille [ fr ] ( Neapolitan Fisherboy ) ( Musée du Louvre , Paris) [5]
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A later shift in taste toward a freer and more naturalistic style is exemplified by the work of Second Empire sculptor Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux. Breaking with traditional approaches to historical subjects and portraiture, Carpeaux infused his sculpture with a previously unseen freedom and immediacy.
