Genius of the Dance, 1864, French, Paris, Bronze, 21 11/16 x 9 1/2 in. (55.1 x 24.1 cm), Sculpture-Bronze, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (French, Valenciennes 1827–1875 Courbevoie), Carpeaux’s high relief on the façade of the Opéra Garnier in Paris, with its naturalistic nudes embodying Dance, is one of the great monuments of Second Empire style. The limestone group was vilified and even splattered with ink but also found admirers, as witness the many bronze reductions of the crowning figure, an inspired teenager who conducts the rhythms of the dancers
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