Amélie Carpeaux, épouse de Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux et mère de Charles Carpeaux - Carte de correspondance autographe signée et photographie originale de son fils à Angkor - 1904

Autograph signed card « Carpeaux », attributed to Amélie Carpeaux, born de Montfort (1847-1908), wife of the sculptor Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux and mother of the archaeologist and photographer Charles Carpeaux (1870-1904). The card is not dated; it is post-June 1904.

Written in brown ink on a correspondence card with a 12 mm mourning border.

In this card addressed to an unidentified correspondent, Amélie Carpeaux accompanies the sending of a memento from her deceased son and a fragment of one of the moulages made by him. She states that these moulages were then exhibited in her husband’s workshop. The moulage fragment is not attached.

The memento mentioned is the photograph attached, kept with the card: an old sepia-toned print with white margins, depicting Charles Carpeaux wearing a colonial helmet, leaning on a window carved with a temple of Angkor, above a frieze of apsaras.

(Another print of the same image is kept at the Petit Palais, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris, which places the shot at the Bayon temple. It accompanies a letter from Amélie Carpeaux concerning the transfer of bas-reliefs created in Angkor by her son.)

- Dimensions: Photograph: 13 × 18.1 cm; Correspondence card: 11.6 × 8.9 cm
- Condition: Good state of preservation. See photos for details.

- Charles Carpeaux, born 23 April 1870 in Paris and died 28 June 1904 in Saigon in Cochinchina, is an architect, photographer. He is the eldest son of sculptor Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux. Wikipedia

- Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, born 11 May 1827 in Valenciennes and died 12 October 1875 in Courbevoie, is a French sculptor, painter, draftsman and engraver. Wikipedia

Carefully sent in a rigid and watertight box.