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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
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 Pêcheur napolitain à la coquille.
1867
Exposition Universelle, Paris, 1867, no. 647, as Pêcheur napolitain.
1871
The One Hundred and Third Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1871, no. 1263, as Le pêcheur 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 Pêcheur à la coquille (Fisherboy with a Shell).

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