Work
- Ugolin et ses fils (Ugolino and his Sons) (1861, in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art) with versions in other museums including the Musée d'Orsay
- The Dance, commissioned for the Opera Garnier in 1869, featuring several nude figures in a wild and boisterous dance, criticized as an offense to common decency
- Jeune pêcheur à la coquille (Neapolitan Fisherboy) - in the Louvre, Paris
- Girl with Shell
- Antoine Watteau monument, Valenciennes
- Flora and bas-reliefs for the southern facade of the Pavillon de Flore, Palais du Louvre, for architect Hector Lefuel, 1865
- The multifigure allegorical group on the top of the City Hall of his home town, Valenciennes, 1860–1873
- Fontaine de l'Observatoire, also known as the Carpeaux Fountain, south of the Jardin du Luxembourg. Partly complete at his death, Carpeaux finished the terrestrial globe with the cardinal points represented by the four figures of Asia (East), Europe (North), America (West) and Africa (South).
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Famous quotes containing the word work:
“So your work and you shall reinforce yourself.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“If your work is made more easy
By a friendly, helping hand,
Say so.”
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“So work the honey-bees,
Creatures that by a rule in nature teach
The act of order to a peopled kingdom.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)