Carpeaux designed the sculptures ornamenting the pediment, which represented the Defense of Valenciennes.
"Carpeaux has nothing on this young lady," insisted Quair flippantly; and he pivoted on his heel and sat down beside the model.
Traces of Carpeaux's influence are plain in his way of conceiving such subjects as Carpeaux would have handled.
We find him also thoroughly alive in the fine bust by Carpeaux and in the medal by Chaplain, now in the Luxembourg.
He had the opportunity of seeing his modeling corrected by Carpeaux.
