Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux

 
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Reason
I think this is just such a superb way to commemorate a sculptor. Plus, the engraving is based on a photo, but has survived far better than the photo has, so we get the best of both worlds.
Proposed caption
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux was a 19th-century French sculptor and painter who sought to inject movement and spontaneity into his works. This engraving, done to commemorate him after his death, shows his sculpture Flore below him, and others of his works above. In his time, some of his works, particularly La Danse, were criticised as indecent, but today his sculptures are exhibited in major museums of art worldwide.
Articles this image appears in
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux
Creator
Uncredited, but evidently based partially on this photo, as well as various sculptures.

Promoted Image:Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux.png MER-C 04:24, 3 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]