The Invention of the Model
Subtitle: Artists and Models in Paris, 1830-1870
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Published: February 28, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9780754634843
Subjects: History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900; Human figures depicted in art; Women's studies; France; Artists' models; Art; Art & Art Instruction; European; History; Techniques - General; Criticism; 19th century
First sentence: In 1840, the popular caricaturist Paul Gavarni drew a 'typical' artist's model for Les Francais peints par eux-memes, a humorous pseudo-scientific ethnography of the French population (Figure 1.1).