Le fumeur, 1863

  • Jean Baptiste Carpeaux, French, 1827-1875

Terracotta

  • Including base: 22 1/4 × 12 7/8 × 10 3/16 inches, 27.5 pounds (56.5 × 32.7 × 25.9 cm, 12.5 kg)

Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund

75.86

Department

European Modern Art to 1970

Signed, back: Carpeaux 1863

(Michael Hall Fine Arts, New York, New York, USA)

1975-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Mosby, D. "European Art," Bulletin of the DIA 55, no. 1, Annual Report (1976-1977): pp. 12-16, p. 15 (ill.). Benezit, Paris, 1966, vol. 2, p. 330. “Principales Acquisitions des Musée en 1977,” La Chronique des arts et de la curiosité: supplement to Gazette des beaux-arts 91, no. 1310 (March 1978): p. 52, no. 234 (ill.).

Jean Baptiste Carpeaux, Le fumeur, 1863, terracotta. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund, 75.86.