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Why Born Enslaved by Carpeaux in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, July 2023
Title: Why Born Enslaved!
Artist: Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (French, Valenciennes 1827–1875 Courbevoie)
Date: modeled 1868, carved 1873
Culture: French
Medium: Marble
Dimensions: 22 7/8 × 16 × 12 1/2 in., 132.7 lb. (58.1 × 40.6 × 31.8 cm, 60.2 kg)
Pedestal: 22 × 18 in., 1298 lb. (55.9 × 45.7 cm, 588.8 kg)
Classification: Sculpture
Credit Line: Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace, Wrightsman Fellows, and Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Foundation Gifts, 2019
Accession Number: 2019.220
This bust is perhaps the most well-known nineteenth-century sculpture of an enslaved Black figure. A virtuosic display of artistic achievement, the composition was modeled after an unidentified woman whose features Carpeaux recorded in exquisite detail. Yet this bust is not a portrait. Rather, it depicts the Black figure as an enslaved and racialized "type." Created twenty years after the abolition of slavery in the French colonies (1848), the sculpture was debuted in Paris in 1869 under the title Négresse, a term that reinforces the fallacy of human difference based on skin color. The subject’s resisting pose, defiant expression, and accompanying inscription – "Pourquoi Naître Esclave!" (Why Born Enslaved!) – convey an antislavery message. However, the bust also perpetuates a Western tradition of representation that long saw the Black figure as inseparable from the ropes and chains of enslavement. The present bust is one of only two known versions carved in marble.
Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/824469
Artist: Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (French, Valenciennes 1827–1875 Courbevoie)
Date: modeled 1868, carved 1873
Culture: French
Medium: Marble
Dimensions: 22 7/8 × 16 × 12 1/2 in., 132.7 lb. (58.1 × 40.6 × 31.8 cm, 60.2 kg)
Pedestal: 22 × 18 in., 1298 lb. (55.9 × 45.7 cm, 588.8 kg)
Classification: Sculpture
Credit Line: Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace, Wrightsman Fellows, and Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Foundation Gifts, 2019
Accession Number: 2019.220
This bust is perhaps the most well-known nineteenth-century sculpture of an enslaved Black figure. A virtuosic display of artistic achievement, the composition was modeled after an unidentified woman whose features Carpeaux recorded in exquisite detail. Yet this bust is not a portrait. Rather, it depicts the Black figure as an enslaved and racialized "type." Created twenty years after the abolition of slavery in the French colonies (1848), the sculpture was debuted in Paris in 1869 under the title Négresse, a term that reinforces the fallacy of human difference based on skin color. The subject’s resisting pose, defiant expression, and accompanying inscription – "Pourquoi Naître Esclave!" (Why Born Enslaved!) – convey an antislavery message. However, the bust also perpetuates a Western tradition of representation that long saw the Black figure as inseparable from the ropes and chains of enslavement. The present bust is one of only two known versions carved in marble.
Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/824469
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