Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux

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Reason: I think this is just such a superb way to commemorate a sculptor. Plus, the engraving is based on a photo, but has survived far better than the photo has, so we get the best of both worlds.
Proposed caption: Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux was a 19th-century French sculptor and painter who sought to inject movement and spontaneity into his works. This engraving, done to commemorate him after his death, shows his sculpture Flore below him, and others of his works above. In his time, some of his works, particularly La Danse, were criticised as indecent, but today his sculptures are exhibited in major museums of art worldwide.
Articles this image appears in: Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux
Creator: Uncredited, but evidently based partially on this photo, as well as various sculptures.

Support as nominator Vanished user ^talk 15:23, 26 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support as a beautiful print that encyclopedically illustrates the sculptor. On the issue of caption, do you happen to know what works this print depicts, specifically? If so, it would be good to have that on the image description page and in the proposed caption. Enuja (talk) 06:43, 27 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

- I can find images of the works online, so I do know they're his. The bottom set was used on a French postage stamp commemorating him, for instance. But I can't find anywhere that gives the names. Vanished user ^talk 09:56, 27 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  - If it helps, I THINK the two recumbant figures are his figures of Science (left) and agriculture (right), but I can't find any good reproductions of them, only what appear to be early studies for them, or works based on them. Vanished user ^talk 23:05, 28 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support per Enuja.--Mbz1 (talk) 18:01, 27 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. I don't find the tribute composition to be encyclopedic (and it looks terribly messy in the article). I would prefer just a photo or even a crop of this engraving showing the sculptor alone. Mangostar (talk) 18:46, 27 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support With his work above and below his portrait, it doesn't get much more enc than this. Repro is top notch. Good find! --mikaul^talk 14:37, 28 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Conditional Support either upon removal of some of the more obvious fuzzy black spots around the scan (looking at the peripherals), or a good explanation, bringing up something like artist's intent, as to why they should stay.D-rew 20:40, 30 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- That revision fix it? I'm actually somewhat surprised I hadn't done that already - I generally edit out the paper texture unless it's direct from the original, and most of what I find that's PD can't be scanned directly - it's in a library reference section, etc. Vanished user ^talk 20:54, 30 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted Image:Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux.png MER-C 04:24, 3 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]