"Jean-baptiste Carpeaux (1827-1875) The Neapolitan Laugher, Patinated Terracotta Bust "
Jean-Baptiste CARPEAUX (1827-1875) The Neapolitan Laugher. Patinated terracotta bust. Signed on the back. For the model of this Neapolitan Laugher, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux adapted his Shell Fisherman in 1863, made in Rome in 1857. The work was inspired by the memory of a young boy he met on a Neapolitan beach a year earlier. Height: 47cm