![]() ![]() ![]() In 1854 he would win the coveted Prix de Rome, earning him a scholarship to travel to the Italian capital in order to further develop his craft-though he was unable to leave for the following two years due to prior commissions and troubles with illness. Strangely, while studying at the Ecole, Carpeaux was allegedly caught cheating during certain art competitions yet was declared the winner anyway. Additionally, it is no surprise to hear that Michaelangelo was a major source of inspiration for his work. While there he hopped from tutor to tutor trying to find his preferred style and technique, though the two most notable teachers were François Rude and Françisque-Joseph Duret. At age eleven he moved with his family to Paris where he eventually studied at (Where else?) the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux was born in 1827 in Valenciennes, France, as the third in a line of stonemasons. ![]()
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