Charles Gounod (1818-93)
Plaster, cast. Surface treated with wax. Body set at an angle to squared socle. Bearded man with brows drawn, looks up and to the right. Gonoud is depicted in the pose of conductor.
Given by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
Method of acquisition: Given (1943) by The Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
19th Century, third quarter#
Production date:
after
AD 1871
: Carpeaux must have worked on the portrait when he was in England during the reign of the Paris Commune in 1871, or in the following year 1872 when he revisited the United Kingdom to make a portrait of Napoleon III, who was gravely ill.
Carpeaux and Gounod were both Imperialists and associated with Napolean III and so spent some of the early 1870's exiled in England, where they formed part of the same circle.
Casting (process) : Plaster, cast
Accession number: M.2-1943
Primary reference Number: 29498
External ID: CAM_CCF_M_2_1943
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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