Pourquoi naître esclave ? - Buste

Cire Trudon relive the beautiful tradition of wax sculptures. Why be born a slave is the name given by the sculptor and painter Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (1827-1875) in a series of busts he executed around 1870. It is in the context of the preparatory study on Africa bust the Negress captive born. True to its interpretation of the movement, he is the slave impeded in an oblique twist expressing revolt bust. The story goes that the woman who served as a model would also put the realization of the "Capresse colonies" (1861) by Charles Cordier.