2021.224: Why Born Enslaved!
Sculpture
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2021.224
- People
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Jean Baptiste Carpeaux, French (Valenciennes, France 1827 - 1875 Courbevoie France)
- Title
- Why Born Enslaved!
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Work Type
- sculpture
- Date
- original 1868, cast before 1972
- Culture
- French
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/370379
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Painted plaster
- Dimensions
- 61 × 45.7 × 33 cm (24 × 18 × 13 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: right side of plinth: Carpeaux
- stamp: right side of plinth: Atelier et depot / 74 rue Boileau / Auteuil / Paris
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- [The Connaught Gallery, London], sold; to Arthur K. Solomon, Cambridge, 1972; the Arthur K. and Mariot F. Solomon Collection, bequest; to Harvard Art Museums, 2021
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Arthur K. and Mariot F. Solomon Collection
- Accession Year
- 2021
- Object Number
- 2021.224
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Exhibition History
Verification Level
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