Carpaux & Dupré in Kentucky

Here's a turnup for the book. The Kentucky University Museum of Art in the USA holds works by two of my favourite French artists: Jean Baptiste Carpeaux and Julien Dupré. The Carpeaux is a recast (1979) of his bronze bust La Negresse (1868) which depicts a bound slave. Julien Dupré specialized in realistic countryside scenes. His dynamic oil painting In the Pasture (1883) explodes the sexist myth of the American cowboy. Wrestling cows is women's work, with or without clogs. I found these gems while browsing the Kentucky's current exhibition: Edward Penfield: Spring and Summer Posters for Harper's Magazine, which continues until December 2006. Click the title link for details.