CARPEAUX, JEAN BAPTISTE French sculptor, the son of a mason, was born at Valenciennes, France, on May I I, 1827, and died at the Château de Becon, near Courbevoie, on Oct. 12, 1875. In 1842 he went to Paris, and after working for two years in a drawing-school was admitted to the Ecole des Beaux-Arts on Sept. g, 1854, where he was a pupil of Rude. The Grand Prix de Rome was awarded to his statue of "Hector bearing in his arms his son Astyanax." At Rome he was fascinated by Donatello, and yet more influenced by Michel angelo, to whom he owes his feeling for vehement and passion ate action. In his last year in Rome he sent home a dramatic group, "Ugolino and his Sons," which made his reputation. It was cast in bronze and erected in the garden of the Tuileries. This work was a reaction against the prevailing pseudo-classicism. Carpeaux received many important commissions from the im perial family and others. He executed in 186g one of the four groups for the facade of the new opera house, this representing "Dancing." See Ernest Chesneau, Carpeaux, sa vie et son oeuvre (188o) ; Paul Foucart, Catalogue du Musee Carpeaux, Valenciennes (1882) ; Jules Claretie, J. Carpeaux (1882) ; Francois Bournand, J. B. Carpeaux (1893).