Bacchanal with Children and Donkey
c. 1860-70
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, usually busy carving massive marble dancers for the Paris Opera, takes a break here to sketch a chaotic playground brawl. In this 'Bacchanal,' a group of chubby, energetic cherubs are wrestling a donkey, with one triumphant kid riding the beast like a rodeo bull while the others tumble and pull. Created in the 1860s, this sketch proves that even serious Academic artists knew how to capture the messy, tumbling fun of childhood, using quick, energetic lines to show off his mastery of anatomy and movement.
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