Crouching Flora, ca. 1863, French, Paris, Terracotta, Overall: 8 1/2 x 3 3/4 x 4 1/4 in. (21.6 x 9.5 x 10.8 cm), Sculpture, Carpeaux’s first important public commission was to embellish the attic exterior of the Louvre’s Pavillon de Flore with a high relief of the Triumph of Flora, personifying the benefits of the goddess’s realm over spring and plants, and by implication, the benefits of life under the regime of the Second Empire
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