| L'Illustration
- June
21st, 1890 THE PRIZE OF THE SHOW The superior council of the Fine Arts decided this year to give the prize of the exhibition to a sculptor.They awarded this high award to Mr. Félix Charpentier, author of the plaster group, the Wrestlers, and the marble statue the Song. Friends of art applauded this choice. The most recognized critics agreed to honour the quality which Mr Charpentier had invested in his work. Almost unanimously, they took pleasure in noticing his efforts. In his Werstlers, (...) they had found, a hight level of workmanship and a rare flexibility of expression. Mr. F.Charpentier's begennings are worth remembering. They are the point of departure of a career of labour which honors the man as much as the artist. |
Le
Monde
- May
3rd, 1893
Mr. Félix
Charpentier is one of our
most powerful sculptors. His fairground Werstlers
are strikingly realistic. One sees them, two men who embrace, twist
themselves,
mold themselves and lean back and take up positions which defy the
imagination.
These tours de force have the advantage of allowing the sculptor to
prove
what knowledge he has of the human muscle structure. Mr Charpentier is,
to my mind, an outstanding anatomist. |
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