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The Spirit of the Dance

ArtistStudio of Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux French, 1827–1875

Datecirca 1870–1875

MediumMarble

Dimensionsheight, width, and depth: 41 1/4 × 19 × 17 in. (104.8 × 48.3 × 43.2cm)

ClassificationsSculpture

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the State of North Carolina, by exchange

Object number99.11

On View

On view

ProvenancePrivate collection, Belgium, by 1930; Daniel Katz, Ltd., London; sold to NCMA 1999.
Published References"Principales Aquisitions des Musées en 2000," La Chronique des Arts, Supplement to the Gazette des Beaux-Arts, no. 1586 (March 2001), listed no. 224, illus (b-w) 56.

Michel Poletti and Alain Richarme, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, Sculpteur: Catalogue Raisonné de l'Oeuvre Édité (Les Éditions de l'Amateur, 2003), listed and illus. (color) 56.

David Steel, entry for The Spirit of the Dance, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2010), 372, illus. (color) 373.
Exhibition HistoryRaleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Objects of Desire: The Museum Collects, 1994-2004," July 18, 2004-February 27, 2005.

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