Works
| Name | Location | Date | Notes |
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| "Faune dansant" | Beaux-Arts de Paris, l'école nationale supérieure. | 1895 | Carli was taught in the École des Beaux-Arts de Marseille by Émile Aldebert and in 1890, as a result of winning the annual college prize, he was given a bursary which enabled him to travel to Paris to further his studies at the Beaux-arts there and in 1896 he was runner-up in that year's prestigious Prix de Rome for sculpture. Whilst a student at the Beaux-Arts., Carli would have executed many drawings and several of these are held in the college's collection of ex-pupil's work, including "Faune dansant" which Carli submitted in the college's "Prix Bridan" competition for 1895, winning second prize. At the Beaux-Arts, Carli was a pupil of both Louis-Ernest Barrias and Pierre-Jules Cavalier. |
| Life study ("Figure modelée d'après nature") | Beaux-Arts de Paris, l'école nationale supérieure. Paris. | 1895 | A work in plaster executed by Carli for the college and submitted for a competition for their "Grande Médaille". The work is held by the college in their collection of the works of former pupils. |
| "Dante aux enfers, le combat des démons" | Musée des Beaux-Arts de Marseille | 1898 | This plaster bas-relief was shown at the 1898 Paris Salon and was purchased by the French State. It depicts Dante and Virgil watching two demons fighting. In the exhibition catalogue it was entitled "Combat de démons". A fragment of the work is held by the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Marseille. |
| "La Fierté" | Beaux-Arts de Paris, l'école nationale supérieure. Paris. | 1898 | This plaster bust was executed by Carli whilst a student at the college and entered for the competition "la Tête d'expression". |
| "Sainte Véronique et le Christ" | Cathédrale Notre-Dame-de-la-Major. Marseille | 1900 | The plaster version of this Carli composition was shown at the Paris Salon of 1900 and purchased by the State.[8] In the same year Carli executed a version in white marble and this can be seen in the Cathédrale Notre-Dame-de-la-Major.[9]
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| "Le Rhône" | Marseille. Musée des Beaux-Arts | Date not known | A bronze statuette acquired by the museum in 1930. |
| Bust of Carmen | Marseille. Musée des Beaux-Arts | Date not known | This marble bust is located in the Opéra de Marseille |
| "Praxitèle" or "Le penseur" | Parc Henri Barbusse. Issy-les-Moulineaux | Date not known | This study of a pensive Praxiteles is one of several sculptures in this public park. |
| Monument to Joseph Thome | Bagnols-sur-Cèze | 1900 | Two sculptors were involved with this monument in Bagnols-sur-Cèze's rue Georges-Besson. The bronze bust depicting Joseph Thome is by Laurent Marqueste whilst Carli executed the bronze medallion which depicts Thome's grandson André Thome the politician and deputy for Seine-et-Oise who was killed at Verdun in 1916. The bust sits at the top of an obelisk and the medallion is attached to the main face of that obelisk. There are marble plaques on the obelisk which record Thome's role as a benefactor of Bagnols and recall the death of André Thome. |
| "Omphale" | Blois ; Musée du château de Blois | Date not known | Terracotta figure acquired by the Blois museum in 1933.[15] This composition was subsequently executed in white marble |
| "La Lutte de Jacob avec l'ange" | Clermont-Ferrand.Place Michel de l'Hôpital | 1902 | This marble work was also entitled "La Lutte de l'Esprit pour triompher de la Matière" . Carli's composition depicts a man fighting with an angel and the inscription reads
The working model in plaster was shown at the Paris Salon in 1902 and it was purchased for the Marseille Musée des Beaux-Arts. Carli made two maquettes of the work, one with the angel's wings spread and the second with wings folded.[17][18][19] |
| Bust of the Marquise de Gueidan | Gardenne | 1903 | The last Marquise de Gueidan was a major benefactor of Gardenne and a bust was executed by Carli and erected in the Marquise's honour. The statue is known by the citizens of Gardenne as "La Bonne Personne". |
| Caisse d'Épargne | Marseille | 1904 | The Groupe Caisse d'Épargne is a French semi-cooperative banking group, founded in 1818, with around 4700 branches in the country. This Marseille Caisse d'Épargne building was inaugurated in July 1904. The architect was Albert Tournaire and Carli's sculpture is positioned on one corner of the building. It is entitled "La Prévoyance dans ses fonctions" and in Carli's composition the bank are represented by a female figure holding up a "savings book" and surrounded by workers, farmers and pensioners, some of the groups to whom the cooperative would offer support and protection. A blacksmith offers up money to the safe-keeping of the bank and the pensioners are a reminder of a peaceful retirement which savings can ensure.
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| Fontaine d'Amphitrite | Marseille. Place Joseph Étienne | 1904 | In 1904 the daughter of the shipowner Joseph Étienne commissioned this fountain in his memory. A plaque on the fountain records the names of some of Étienne's ships- "le Cèdre", "le Clarisse Louise", "le Goéland" and the " le Nicolas Étienne Jeune".
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| Monument Monticelli | Palais Longchamp | 1909 | This work was shown at the Paris Salon of 1909. It celebrates the life of the painter Adolphe Joseph Thomas Monticelli
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| Bust of Paul Peytral | Marseille ; Musée des Beaux-Arts | Bronze bust of the senator for Bouches-du-Rhone acquired by the museum in 1913. | |
| Monument to Victor Leydet | Aix-en-Provence | 1910 | Shown at the 1910 Salon des Artistes Français. Originally a pedestal supported a bronze bust of Leydet with an allegory for Aix at his feet. The monument was inaugurated in December 1910. The bronze was taken and melted down by the occupying Germans in 1943 but later a smaller plaster bust, which had decorated Leydet's tomb in the local cemetery, replaced the bronze. |
| Gare Saint-Charles- "Marseille Colonie Grecque" and "Marseille Porte d'Orient" | Marseille | 1911 to 1925 | This principal railway station has a large flight of stairs designed by the architects Eugène Sénès and Léon Arnal and using reinforced concrete. The competition for the designs of the stairway, intended to improve movement between the town centre and the railway station forecourt, was opened in 1911but the 1914-1918 war delayed completion of the project until 1925. The stairs run from the railway station to the Boulevard d'Athènes. The area is the site of much sculptural work including a group of lions and children by Arry Bitter[28] and the works "Marseille Colonie Grecque" and "Marseille Porte d'Orient" by Carli. There are also six small bronze groups representing the produce of Provence. These are by Henri Raybaud and cover "les vendages", "les fruits", "la pêche", "les fleurs", "la moisson" and "la chasse". At bottom of either side of the main stairs are two large sculptures by Louis Botinelly, one, called "Colonies d'Asie" represents colonial Asia and the other, called "Colonies d'Afrique", represents colonial Africa.[29][30]
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| Statue of Camille Pelletan | Place de la Ferrage. Salon de Provence | 1922 | This sculpture of the politician is carved from Cassis stone. |
