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Exhibition
Fictions of Emancipation: Carpeaux Recast
March 10, 2022–March 5, 2023
Previously on view at
The Met Fifth Avenue
in
Gallery 521
Free with Museum admission
All exhibitions
Overview
Visiting Guide
Exhibition Objects
Why Born Enslaved!
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux
modeled 1868, carved 1873
Study of a Woman for “Why Born Enslaved!"
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux
1868
Study of a Woman Kneeling
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux
ca. 1867
Sketch Relating to “Why Born Enslaved!” (recto)
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux
1868
Antislavery Medallion
Josiah Wedgwood
William Hackwood
ca. 1787
Abolitionist Jug
British, probably Stafforshire or Sunderland
ca. 1820
Cologne Bottle with Encrusted Antislavery Image
Apsley Pellatt
ca. 1830
Double-Sided Antislavery Seal Set into a Fob
Josiah Wedgwood
William Hackwood
ca. 1830
Porcelain Group of a Free Man and Woman
Louis Simon Boizot
1794
Print of a Free Man
Louis Darcis
Louis Simon Boizot
1794
Print of a Free Woman
Louis Darcis
Louis Simon Boizot
1794
Sketch of an Allegory of the Abolition of Slavery
Anonymous, French School, 19th Century
ca. 1848
Revolutionary Playing Card
Jean Démosthène Dugourc
1793–1794
Head of a Woman
Jean Antoine Houdon
ca. 1781
Bust of a Woman
Jean Antoine Houdon
1794 or later
Forever Free
Edmonia Lewis
1867
The Freedman
John Quincy Adams Ward
Henry-Bonnard Bronze Company
1863, cast 1891
Allegory of Europe, from the Four Continents
Johann Justin Preissler
Edme Bouchardon
1730–71
Allegory of America, from the Four Continents
Multiple artists/makers
1732
Allegory of Africa, from the Four Continents
Multiple artists/makers
1732
Allegory of Asia, from the Four Continents
Multiple artists/makers
1732
Europe, from Allegories of the Four Continents
Fulda Pottery and Porcelain Manufactory
Johann Andreas Herrlein
1781–88
America, from Allegories of the Four Continents
Fulda Pottery and Porcelain Manufactory
Johann Andreas Herrlein
1781–88
Africa, from Allegories of the Four Continents
Fulda Pottery and Porcelain Manufactory
Johann Andreas Herrlein
1781–88
Asia, from Allegories of the Four Continents
Fulda Pottery and Porcelain Manufactory
Johann Andreas Herrlein
1781–88
Study for the Four Parts of the World Supporting the Celestial Sphere
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux
1867–68
Bust of a Man
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux
1872
Allegory of Africa
Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi
modeled ca. 1863–64
Bust after Seïd Enkess
Charles-Henri-Joseph Cordier
1848
Bust of a Woman
Charles-Henri-Joseph Cordier
1851
Bashi-Bazouk
Jean-Léon Gérôme
1868–69
Head of a Woman
Charles-Henri-Joseph Cordier
modeled 1851, cast 1851 or after
Woman from the French Colonies
Charles-Henri-Joseph Cordier
Charles-François Rossigneux
1861
Bust of Hora
Jean-Pierre Dantan, the Younger
1848
Why Born Enslaved!
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux
modeled 1868, cast 1872
Why Born Enslaved!
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux
modeled 1868
Negress
Kara Walker
2017
After La Négresse, 1872
Kehinde Wiley
2007