Title: L’Amour à la folie
Description: 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 Opera Garnier, and commissioned architect Charles Garnier.The Musee d'Orsay in Paris holds a terracotta edition (RF 2928), the Museo Soumaya in Mexico City holds both a terracotta and a bronze (Inv.° 274) and the Museu Calouste Gulbenkian in Lisbon holds an edition in marble (Inv.° 563). Henry James wrote of the sculpture group in The New York Tribune in 1875:
Author(s): Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux