Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux was a French sculptor and painter during the Second Empire under Napoleon III.
Bust of Carpeaux Saint Roch Cemetery
The Seasons turning the celestial Sphere for the Fountain of the Observatory, Jardin du Luxembourg
Why Born Enslaved! 1868, National Museum in Warsaw
Ugolino and His Sons is a marble sculpture of Ugolino made by Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux in Paris during the 1860s. It depicts the story of Ugolino from Dante's Inferno in which the 13th century count is
Laocoön and His Sons (1st century BCE) compositionally influenced Carpeaux's Ugolino and His Sons