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image of Neapolitan Fisherboy (PĂȘcheur napolitain Ă  la coquille)
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (artist)
French, 1827 - 1875
Neapolitan Fisherboy (PĂȘcheur napolitain Ă  la coquille), 1857-after 1861
marble
overall: 92 x 42 x 47 cm (36 1/4 x 16 9/16 x 18 1/2 in.)
Samuel H. Kress Collection
1943.4.89
On View
From the Tour: Marble Sculpture from France
Object 8 of 8

Exhibition History

1861
Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1861.
1861
Villa Medici, Rome, 1861.
1863
Salon, Paris, 1863, no. 2273, as PĂȘcheur napolitain Ă  la coquille.
1867
Exposition Universelle, Paris, 1867, no. 647, as PĂȘcheur napolitain.
1871
The One Hundred and Third Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1871, no. 1263, as Le pĂȘcheur napolitain.
1941
Exhibition of Sculpture, Duveen Galleries, New York, 1941.
1974
Nineteenth-Century Sculpture, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1974, unnumbered checklist, as PĂȘcheur Ă  la coquille (Fisherboy with a Shell).

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