''L'Amour à la folie'' (''Love to madness'') is an 1869 sculpture by
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, part of the sculptural group ''
La Danse'' for the Paris
Opéra Garnier. The sculpture was commissioned by the building's architect
Charles Garnier.
The
Musée d'Orsay
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in Paris holds a
terracotta edition (RF 2928), the
Museo Soumaya in
Mexico City holds both a terracotta and a
bronze
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(Inv.° 274)
and the
Museu Calouste Gulbenkian in
Lisbon
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holds an edition in
marble (Inv.° 563).
wrote of the sculpture group in ''
The New York Tribune
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'' in 1875:
L'amour à la folie (terracota 2).jpg, Terracotta edition in the collection of the Museo Soumaya
File:L'amour à la folie Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux V2.jpg, Marble edition (1872) in the collection of the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum
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A marble edition is held privately in Ireland.
P1080678Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux,Génie de la Danse avec l'Amour à la folie,1872,bronze.jpg, ''Génie de la Danse'' (1872) featuring avec ''l'Amour à la folie'' in the collection of Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nice
References
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1869 sculptures
sculptures in France