| L’Amour à la folie | |
| Artist: | Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux |
| Year: | 1869 |
| Type: | Sculpture |
| Height Metric: | 70 |
| Width Metric: | 67 |
| Length Metric: | 44 |
| Metric Unit: | cm |
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),[1] the Museo Soumaya in Mexico City holds both a terracotta and a bronze (Inv.° 274)[2] and the Museu Calouste Gulbenkian in Lisbon holds an edition in marble (Inv.° 563).[3]
Henry James wrote of the sculpture group in The New York Tribune in 1875: