L'Amour à la folie
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 Opéra Garnier. The sculpture was commissioned by the building's architect Charles Garnier. The Musée 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: L'Amour à