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image of Neapolitan Fisherboy (Pêcheur napolitain à la coquille)
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (artist)
French, 1827 - 1875
Neapolitan Fisherboy (Pêcheur napolitain à 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

1880Chesneau, Ernest. Le Statuaire J.-B. Carpeaux, sa vie, son oeuvre. Paris, 1880: 68.
1914Lami, Stanislas. Dictionnaire des sculpteurs de l'école française au dix-neuvième siècle. 4 vols. Paris, 1914-1921: 1(1914):255, 263.
1921Mabille de Poncheville, André. Carpeaux inconnu. Brussels and Paris, 1921: 186-192, 213.
1934Clément-Carpeaux, Louise. La Vérité sur l'oeuvre et la vie de J.-B. Carpeaux. 2 vols. Paris, 1934-1935: 102, 109, 125, 136, 151.
1945Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1945 (reprinted 1947, 1949): 204, repro.
1949Seymour, Charles. Masterpieces of Sculpture from the National Gallery of Art. Washington and New York, 1949: 183-184, no. 55, repro. 166.
1959Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 458, repro.
1965Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 147.
1968European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1968: 131, repro.
1976Avery, Charles. In Middeldorf 1976, 115-117, figs. 193, 197-198, as Fisherboy with a Sea Shell.
1984Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. (rev. ed.) New York, 1984: 646, no. 1021, repro.
1994Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: 43, repro.
2000Butler, Ruth, and Suzanne Glover Lindsay, with Alison Luchs, Douglas Lewis, Cynthia J. Mills, and Jeffrey Weidman. European Sculpture of the Nineteenth Century. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 2000: 66-75, color repro.

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